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Digital mammography, cancer screening: Factors important for image compressionThe use of digital mammography for breast cancer screening poses several novel problems such as development of digital sensors, computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) methods for image noise suppression, enhancement, and pattern recognition, compression algorithms for image storage, transmission, and remote diagnosis. X-ray digital mammography using novel direct digital detection schemes or film digitizers results in large data sets and, therefore, image compression methods will play a significant role in the image processing and analysis by CAD techniques. In view of the extensive compression required, the relative merit of 'virtually lossless' versus lossy methods should be determined. A brief overview is presented here of the developments of digital sensors, CAD, and compression methods currently proposed and tested for mammography. The objective of the NCI/NASA Working Group on Digital Mammography is to stimulate the interest of the image processing and compression scientific community for this medical application and identify possible dual use technologies within the NASA centers.
Document ID
19930015362
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Clarke, Laurence P. (University of South Florida Tampa, FL, United States)
Blaine, G. James (Washington Univ. Saint Louis, MO., United States)
Doi, Kunio (Chicago Univ. IL., United States)
Yaffe, Martin J. (Toronto Univ. Ontario., Canada)
Shtern, Faina (National Cancer Inst. Bethesda, MD., United States)
Brown, G. Stephen (Research Triangle Inst. Research Triangle Park, NC., United States)
Winfield, Daniel L. (Research Triangle Inst. Research Triangle Park, NC., United States)
Kallergi, Maria (University of South Florida Tampa., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, The 1993 Space and Earth Science Data Compression Workshop
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Accession Number
93N24551
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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