Computerized mammogram processing
Computerized mammogram processing
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计算机化乳房X光检查处理
DOI：
10.1109/iembs.2003.1279907
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发表时间：
2014
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通讯作者：
W. Spiesberger
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作者：
A. Høyer;W. Spiesberger
Breast cancer is a serious disease that can only be treated successfully if it is diagnosed at an early stage. A mass-screening technique capable of routinely detecting breast cancer at a very early stage would therefore be very widely appreciated. The most effective way of detecting breast cancer as yet in massscreening is that of self-palpation. Obviously, only the larger growths can be discovered in this way; incipient growths are too small. To improve early diagnosis of breast cancer the idea of combining mammography i.e. the recording of the radiographic absorption pattern of the breast, see fig . .J with other clinical methods is being considered. Several research groups have studied the reliability of mammography and of clinical methods of examination [11, and have found that a combination of techniques, applied in a systematic diagnostic procedure, could reduce breast-cancer mortality, imd that the contribution of mammography in such a procedure is indispensable. The recording of mammograms is an accepted radiological procedure in current medical practice. However, a reliable diagnosis is not always possible, even with skilful and experienced radiologists, since the inspection of a large number of mammograms in a mass-screening examination is tiring, and it is difficult to apply explicit diagnostic principles consistently. To improve diagnostics, various computer techniques 'have been proposed that are capable of giving results that are more objective and above all more reliable [21:1nthis article we shall describe a procedure for mammogram processing that has been devised at Philips Forschungslaboratorium Hamburg, as part of our general programme of research on medical image processing [31. Mass-screening examinations for breast cancer are concerned not only with large cancerous structures -
