High contrast soft tissue imaging based on multi-energy x-ray

Hyun-Hwa Oh; Young-Hun Sung; Sung-Su Kim; Jae-Hyun Kwon; Seong-Deok Lee; Chang-Yeong Kim

doi:10.1117/12.877862

16 March 2011 High contrast soft tissue imaging based on multi-energy x-ray

Hyun-Hwa Oh, Young-Hun Sung, Sung-Su Kim, Jae-Hyun Kwon, Seong-Deok Lee, Chang-Yeong Kim

Proceedings Volume 7961, Medical Imaging 2011: Physics of Medical Imaging; 796157 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.877862
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

Breast soft tissues have similar x-ray attenuations to mass tissue. Overlapping breast tissue structure often obscures mass and microcalcification, essential to the early detection of breast cancer. In this paper, we propose new method to generate the high contrast mammogram with distinctive features of a breast cancer by using multiple images with different x-ray energy spectra. On the experiments with mammography simulation and real breast tissues, the proposed method has provided noticeable images with obvious mass structure and microcalifications.

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Hyun-Hwa Oh, Young-Hun Sung, Sung-Su Kim, Jae-Hyun Kwon, Seong-Deok Lee, and Chang-Yeong Kim "High contrast soft tissue imaging based on multi-energy x-ray", Proc. SPIE 7961, Medical Imaging 2011: Physics of Medical Imaging, 796157 (16 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.877862

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