Digital Mammography: 10th International Workshop, Iwdm 2010, Girona, Catalonia, Spain, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, 2010)

Oral Session 1: CAD.- Impact of CAD with Full Field Digital Mammography on Workflow and Cost.- Performance of Triple-Modality CADx on Breast Cancer Diagnostic Classification.- Needle Path Planning Method for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Biopsy Based on Probabilistic Techniques.- X-ray Mammography ? MRI Registration Using a Volume-Preserving Affine Transformation and an EM-MRF for Breast Tissue Classification.- Oral Session 2: Image Processing and Analysis I.- Interactive Multi-scale Contrast Enhancement of Previously Processed Digital Mammograms.- Lesion Segmentation in Breast Sonography.- Mammogram Compression Using Super-Resolution.- Development of an Ensemble of Digital Breast Object Models.- Analysis of Geometric Accuracy in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Reconstruction.- Oral Session 3: Breast Imaging Physics.- Results of Comprehensive Dose Survey for Mammography.- Validation of a Simulated Dose Reduction Methodology Using Digital Mammography CDMAM Images and Mastectomy Images.- Measured Dose versus Organ Dose Performance in Digital Mammography Systems.- Noise Reduction in Dual-Energy Contrast Enhanced Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Using Regularization.- Phantom Dose Levels Found at Annual Physics Surveys in a National Mammography Screening Program: Comparison of Doses from Analog and Digital Equipment and from Digital Equipment at Different Points in Time.- Poster Session 1.- Task-Based Evaluation of Image Quality of Filtered Back Projection for Breast Tomosynthesis.- A Comparative Study of the Inter-reader Variability of Breast Percent Density Estimation in Digital Mammography: Potential Effect of Reader’s Training and Clinical Experience.- Concepts for Efficient and Reliable Multi-modal Breast Image Reading.- Modeling the Impact of CAD on the Outcomes of the UK Breast Screening Programme.- Introducing a Novel Image Quality Measure for Digital Phase-Contrast-Image Evaluation.- Modelling Structural Deformations in Mammographic Tissue Using the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet.- Classification of Linear Structures in Mammograms Using Random Forests.- Should CAD Be Used as a Second Reader? ? Exploring Two Alternative Reading Modes for CAD in Screening Mammography.- Automated Assessment of Area of Dense Tissue in the Breast: A Comparison with Human Estimation.- Local Greylevel Appearance Histogram Based Texture Segmentation.- Quantification of Vascular Calcifications on Digitized Mammograms.- Comparison of Tilt Correction Methods in Full Field Digital Mammograms.- Optimising Beam Quality Selection in Mammographic Acquisition Using the Standard Attenuation Rate.- Investigating the Replacement of the Physical Anti-scatter Grid with Digital Image Processing.- Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (DWI) for Breast Cancers; Challenging to Diagnose Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) and Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC).- CR Mammography: Image Quality Measurement and Model Calculation for Needle vs. Powder Imaging Plate.- Performance Assessment of Breast Tomosynthesis Systems: Concepts for Two Types of Phantoms.- Realistic Simulation of Microcalcifications in Breast Tomosynthesis.- Breast Tomosynthesis Reconstruction Using a Grid of Blobs with Projection Matrices.- A Boosting Based Approach for Automatic Micro-calcification Detection.- Automatic Breast Tissue Classification Based on BIRADS Categories.- Validation of Mammographic Texture Analysis for Assessment of Breast Cancer Risk.- Towards Learning Spiculation Score of the Masses in Mammography Images.- Three Digital Mammography Display Configurations: Observer Performance in a Pilot ROC Study.- How Can Image Quality Affect the Detection Performance of Breast CAD (Computer Aided Detection) in FFDM (Full Field Digital Mammography)? ? A Comparative Study with Two Different FFDM Systems-.- Feature Point Detection for Non-rigid Registration of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Images.- Contrast Detail Curves on Digital Mammography: Performance Comparison of Raw and Filtered Images.- Reader Fatigue Interpreting Mammograms.- Adapting Clinical Images to Appear with Different Noise and Sharpness to Model a Different Detector.- Oral Session 4: Physics Models.- Human Observer Performance in a Single Slice or a Volume: Effect of Background Correlation.- Influence of Geometrical Factors on Phase Contrast Fiber Images.- Robust Breast Composition Measurement - VolparaTM.- Oral Session 5: Clinical Experiences.- Technical Evaluation of a Digital Breast Tomosynthesis System.- Mammographic Interpretation Training: How Could Low Cost Display Devices Help?.- A Survey of Patient Doses from Digital Mammography Systems in the UK in 2007 to 2009.- Analysis of Mammography Quality Control Results: Evidence for a Change in Test Frequency?.- A Comparative Study of Volumetric and Area-Based Breast Density Estimation in Digital Mammography: Results from a Screening Population.- Oral Session 6: Breast Density.- Volumetric Breast Density and Breast Cancer Risk Factors in a Screening Population.- Determinants and Consequences of Change in Breast Density.- Comparison of Subregional Breast Density with Whole Breast Density.- Comparing a New Volumetric Breast Density Method (VolparaTM) to Cumulus.- Visual Assessment of Density in Digital Mammograms.- Oral Session 7: Digital Breast Tomosynthesis.- Concepts for High-Resolution CT of the Breast.- Optimised Breast Tomosynthesis with a Novel CMOS Flat Panel Detector.- Calculation of OTF, NPS, and DQE for Oblique X-Ray Incidence on Turbid Granular Phosphors.- Scanner for Integrated X-Ray Breast Tomosynthesis and Molecular Breast Imaging Tomosynthesis.- An Anthropomorphic Software Breast Phantom for Tomosynthesis Simulation: Power Spectrum Analysis of Phantom Projections.- Poster Session 2.- Comparison of Two Novel FFDM Systems with Different a-Se Detector Technology: Physical Characterization and Phantom Contrast Detail Evaluation in Clinical Conditions.- Development of a Peripheral Thickness Estimation Method for Volumetric Breast Density Measurements in Mammography Using a 3D Finite Element Breast Model.- Is CAD Able to Assist in the Detection of Subtle Breast Findings ? Lobular Cancers, and T1a/T1b Masses in Dense Breasts?.- Towards More Realistic Biomechanical Modelling of Tumours under Mammographic Compressions.- Scoring Systems in Computer-Based Training for Digital Mammography.- The Effect of Slab Size on Mass Detection Performance of a Screen-Film CAD System in Reconstructed Tomosynthesis Volumes.- Synthesising Malignant Breast Masses in Normal Mammograms.- Comparison of Microcalcification Detection Rates and Recall Rates in Digital and Analogue Mammography.- Constancy Checking of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Systems.- Mammographic Image Segmentation and Risk Classification Using a Novel Texture Signature Based Methodology.- Stratified Sampling for Case Selection Criteria for Evaluating CAD.- Breast Shapes on Real and Simulated Mammograms.- Regularization Parameter Selection in Maximum a Posteriori Iterative Reconstruction for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis.- Image Quality Phantom in Close Compliance with the ICRU-44 Breast Tissue Substitute Standard and Realistic Background Noise Pattern for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis.- The Standard Attenuation Rate for Quantitative Mammography.- National Software Supported Quality Assurance Program in Digital Mammography: Experiences and Challenges.- Inter and Intra Observer Variability in a Semi-automatic Method for Measuring Volumetric Breast Density.- Optimization of the Exposure Parameters with Signal-to-Noise Ratios Considering Human Visual Characteristics in Digital Mammography.- Ideal Observer Comparison between Tomographic and Projection x-Ray Images of the Breast.- Breast Structural Noise in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Its Dependence on Reconstruction Methods.- Dual-Energy Dividing Mammography.- Effect of BI-RADS Assessment in Improving CAD of Masses.- Analysis of the Benefit/Risk Ratio Obtained in the Valencian Breast Early Detection Program During 2007 and 2008.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Scatter Field for Calculation of Contrast of Discs in Synthetic CDMAM Images.- Classifying Breast Masses in Volumetric Whole Breast Ultrasound Data: A 2.5-Dimensional Approach.- A supplement to the European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis.- Investigation of Practical Scoring Methods for Breast Density.- Performance of the New Double Layer Amorphous Selenium Detector for Digital Mammography Compared to the FDA Approved CR System for Digital Mammography.- Oral Session 8: Image Processing and Analysis II.- Machine Learning Techniques and Mammographic Risk Assessment.- Automatic BI-RADS Description of Mammographic Masses.- A Clustering Method for the Extraction of Microcalcifications Using Epipolar Curves in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis.- Oral Session 9: Lesion Detection.- Software Framework for Simulating Clusters of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammography.- Improved Microcalcification Detection for Breast Tomosynthesis Using a Penalized-Maximum-Likelihood Reconstruction Method.- Microcalcification Detection in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Using an Epipolar Curve Approach.- Spiculated Lesions and Architectural Distortions Detection in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Datasets.- An Observer Model for Lesion Detectability in Contrast-Enhanced Digital Mammography.- Oral Session 10: Registration.- Fast Deformation Simulation of Breasts Using GPU-Based Dynamic Explicit Finite Element Method.- Breast Image Registration by Combining Finite Elements and Free-Form Deformations.- The Effect of Motion Correction on Pharmacokinetic Parameter Estimation.- Improved Detection of Cancer in Screening Mammograms by Temporal Comparison.- Combined Reconstruction and Registration of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis.