Breast imaging : 11th International Workshop, IWDM 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 8-11, 2012 : proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, IWDM 2012, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in July 2012. The℗ 42 revised full papers and℗ 58 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from℗ numerous initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on contrast-enhancing imaging, digital mammography methods, tomosynthesis system design, tomosynthesis - image quality and dose, clinical tomosynthesis, functional breast imaging, breast computed tomography, computer-aided diagnosis and image processing, tomosynthesis reconstruction, and breast density Front Matter....Pages - Pre-clinical Evaluation of Tumour Angiogenesis with Contrast-Enhanced Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 1-8 The Effect of Amorphous Selenium Thickness on Imaging Performance of Contrast Enhanced Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 9-16 Contrast Optimization in Clinical Contrast-Enhanced Digital Mammography Images....Pages 17-23 Determination of System Geometrical Parameters and Consistency between Scans for Contrast-Enhanced Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 24-31 Initial Experience with Dual-Energy Contrast-Enhanced Digital Breast Tomosynthesis in the Characterization of Breast Cancer....Pages 32-39 Mammographic Segmentation and Risk Classification Using a Novel Binary Model Based Bayes Classifier....Pages 40-47 Intensity-Based MRI to X-ray Mammography Registration with an Integrated Fast Biomechanical Transformation....Pages 48-55 Comparison of Experimental, mantis , and hybrid mantis X-ray Response for a Breast Imaging CsI Detector....Pages 56-63 Breast Mass Classification Using Orthogonal Moments....Pages 64-71 A Task-Specific Argument for Variable-Exposure Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 72-79 Detective Quantum Efficiency of a CsI-CMOS X-ray Detector for Breast Tomosynthesis Operating in High Dynamic Range and High Sensitivity Modes....Pages 80-87 Multimodal Classification of Breast Masses in Mammography and MRI Using Unimodal Feature Selection and Decision Fusion....Pages 88-95 Comparison of Lesion Size Using Area and Volume in Full Field Digital Mammograms....Pages 96-103 Very High Contrast and Very High Spatial Resolution 2-D, 2.5-D and 3-D Breast Tissue Visualization under X-ray Dark Field Imaging....Pages 104-110 Detecting Clusters of Microcalcifications with a Cascade-Based Approach....Pages 111-118 Diagnostic Impact of Adjunction of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) to Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) and in Comparison with Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM)....Pages 119-126 Ethnic Variation in Volumetric Breast Density....Pages 127-133 Personalizing Mammographic Dosimetry Using Multilayered Anatomy-Based Breast Models....Pages 134-140 A Directional Small-Scale Tissue Model for an Anthropomorphic Breast Phantom....Pages 141-148 Simulation of Three Material Partial Volume Averaging in a Software Breast Phantom....Pages 149-156 Iterative Reconstruction with Monte Carlo Based System Matrix for Dedicated Breast PET....Pages 157-164 Comparison of Contact Spot Imaging on a Scanning Mammography System to Conventional Geometric Magnification Imaging....Pages 165-172 Region Matching in the Temporal Study of Mammograms Using Integral Invariant Scale-Space....Pages 173-180 Characterizing Breast Phenotype with a Novel Measure of Fibroglandular Structure....Pages 181-188 Performance of Computed Radiography and Direct Digital Radiography in a Screening Setting: Effect on the Screening Indicators....Pages 189-196 A Quality Control Framework Using Task-Based Detectability Measurements for Digital Mammography....Pages 197-204 Longitudinal Change in Mammographic Density and Association with Breast Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Study....Pages 205-211 Long-Term Stability of Image Quality Measurements for Two Digital Mammography Systems....Pages 212-219 Characterization of Spatial Luminance Noise in Stereoscopic Displays for Breast Imaging....Pages 220-227 Volumetric and Area-Based Breast Density Measurement in the Predicting Risk of Cancer at Screening (PROCAS) Study....Pages 228-235 Breast Cancer Risk Prediction via Area and Volumetric Estimates of Breast Density....Pages 236-243 Fully-Automated Fibroglandular Tissue Segmentation in Breast MRI....Pages 244-251 Inferring the Breast Periphery from an Image When Measuring Volumetric Breast Density....Pages 252-259 Digital Scatter Removal for Mammography and Tomosynthesis Image Acquisition....Pages 260-267 Filtering of Poisson Noise in Digital Mammography Using Local Statistics and Adaptive Wiener Filter....Pages 268-275 A Novel Workflow-Centric Breast MRI Reading Prototype Utilizing Multitouch Gestures....Pages 276-283 Evaluation of Various Mammography Phantoms for Image Quality Assessment in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 284-291 Effects of Medical Display Luminance, Contrast and Temporal Compensation on CHO Detection Performance at Various Browsing Speeds and on Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Images....Pages 292-299 The Impact of Reduced Injected Radioactivity on Image Quality of Molecular Breast Imaging Tomosynthesis....Pages 300-307 Automatic Seed Placement for Breast Lesion Segmentation on US Images....Pages 308-315 Comparison of Breast Doses for Digital Tomosynthesis Estimated from Patient Exposures and Using PMMA Breast Phantoms....Pages 316-321 Phantoms for Quality Control Procedures of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 322-329 Development of a Quality Control Protocol for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Systems in the TOMMY Trial....Pages 330-337 A Modelling Framework for Evaluation of 2D-Mammography and Breast Tomosynthesis Systems....Pages 338-345 Is the Outcome of Optimizing the System Acquisition Parameters Sensitive to the Reconstruction Algorithm in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis?....Pages 346-353 Usefulness of Adjunction of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) to Full-Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) in Evaluation of Pathological Response after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NAC) for Breast Cancer....Pages 354-361 The Morphology of Microcalcifications in 2D Digital Mammography and Breast Tomosynthesis: Is It Different?....Pages 362-368 Comparison of 15° and 30° Angle Acquisition Digital Breast Tomosynthesis for Visualization and Characterization of Breast Abnormalities....Pages 369-376 Differences in Radiologists’ Experiences and Performance in Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 377-385 Proposing an Acquisition Geometry That Optimizes Super-Resolution in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 386-393 Converting One Set of Mammograms to Simulate a Range of Detector Imaging Characteristics for Observer Studies....Pages 394-401 Quantification of Tc-99m Sestamibi Distribution in Normal Breast Tissue Using Dedicated Breast SPECT-CT....Pages 402-409 Impact of Digitalization of Mammographic Units on Average Glandular Doses in the Flemish Breast Cancer Screening Program....Pages 410-417 An Examination of Silver as a Radiographic Contrast Agent in Dual-Energy Breast X-ray Imaging....Pages 418-425 Initial Evaluation of a Newly Developed High Resolution CT Imager for Dedicated Breast CT....Pages 426-433 Comparison of Lesion Extent and Contrast-Agent Uptake in Breast Tomosynthesis versus Cone-Beam Breast CT....Pages 434-441 Development and Initial Demonstration of a Low-Dose Dedicated Fully 3D Breast CT System....Pages 442-449 Correspondence among Subjective and Objective Similarities and Pathologic Types of Breast Masses on Digital Mammography....Pages 450-457 A Hypothesis-Test Framework for Quantitative Lesion Detection and Diagnosis....Pages 458-465 Breast Density into Clinical Practice....Pages 466-473 Intensity Independent Texture Analysis in Screening Mammograms....Pages 474-481 Inter- and Intra-Observer Variability of Radiologists Evaluating CBIR Systems....Pages 482-489 Quantification of Detection Probability of Microcalcifications at Increased Display Luminance Levels....Pages 490-497 Development of Computer Techniques Designed to Aid Tests of Digital Mammography Systems Quality Evaluation with the Phantom CDMAM 3.4....Pages 498-505 Towards Breast Anatomy Simulation Using GPUs....Pages 506-513 Breast Parenchymal Pattern (BPP) Analysis: Comparison of Digital Mammograms and Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 514-520 Classification of Microcalcification Clusters Based on Morphological Topology Analysis....Pages 521-528 Spectral Volumetric Glandularity Assessment....Pages 529-536 Power-Law, Beta, and (Slight) Chaos in Automated Mammography Breast Structure Characterization....Pages 537-544 Breast Density Measurement in Full-Field Digital Mammography: System Calibration and Stability....Pages 545-552 A Method for Lesion Visibility Prediction in Mammograms by Local Analysis of Spectral Anatomical Noise....Pages 553-560 Adapting Breast Density Classification from Digitized to Full-Field Digital Mammograms....Pages 561-568 Improvements and Performance of Diagnostic Compositional Imaging Using a Novel Dual-Energy X-ray Technique....Pages 569-574 Monte Carlo Simulation of a-Se X-ray Detectors for Breast Imaging: Effect of Nearest-Neighbor Recombination Algorithm on Swank Noise....Pages 575-582 Initial Result of a Prospective Study: Comparison between a Low Dose 3D Stereo Mammography and FFDM....Pages 583-588 Volumetric and Area-Based Measures of Mammographic Density in Women with and without Cancer....Pages 589-595 Mammographic Parenchymal Texture Analysis for Estrogen-Receptor Subtype Specific Breast Cancer Risk Estimation....Pages 596-603 A Phantom Study for Assessing the Effect of Different Digital Detectors on Mammographic Texture Features....Pages 604-610 Reduction of Patient Dose in Digital Mammography: Simulation of Low-Dose Image from a Routine Dose....Pages 611-618 Comparison of Hologic’s Quantra Volumetric Assessment to MRI Breast Density....Pages 619-626 2D/3D Registration for Localization of Mammographically Depicted Lesions in Breast MRI....Pages 627-634 Application of a Protocol for Constancy Control of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Systems: Results and Experiences....Pages 635-641 Design and Evaluation of a Phantom with Structured Background for Digital Mammography and Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 642-649 An Experimental Comparison of Continuous Motion and Step-and-Shoot Modes in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 650-657 Application of a Dynamic 4D Anthropomorphic Breast Phantom in Contrast-Based Imaging System Optimization: Dual-Energy or Temporal Subtraction?....Pages 658-665 Image Processing and Registration of Opposed View 3D Breast Ultrasound....Pages 666-672 Detecting Low-Conspicuity Mammographic Findings – The Real Added Value of CAD....Pages 673-681 Potential of a Standalone Computer-Aided Detection System for Breast Cancer Detection in Screening Mammography....Pages 682-689 Estimating Sensitivity and Specificity in an ROC Experiment....Pages 690-696 Level Set Breast Mass Segmentation in Contrast-Enhanced and Non-Contrast-Enhanced Breast CT....Pages 697-704 Methods for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Screening Mammography Are Not Necessarily Valid for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Computer-Aided Detection in Screening Mammography....Pages 705-712 Joint Registration and Limited-Angle Reconstruction of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 713-720 Dose Reduction for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis by Patch-Based Denoising in Reconstruction....Pages 721-728 Out-of-Plane Artifact Reduction in Tomosynthesis Based on Regression Modeling and Outlier Detection....Pages 729-736 Investigating Oblique Reconstructions with Super-Resolution in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 737-744 Improving Image Quality of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis by Artifact Reduction....Pages 745-752 Automatic Volumetric Glandularity Assessment from Full Field Digital Mammograms....Pages 753-760 A Breast Density-Dependent Power-Law Model for Digital Mammography....Pages 761-768 A Calibration Approach for Single-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry Method to Provide Absolute Breast Tissue Composition Accuracy for the Long Term....Pages 769-774 Local versus Whole Breast Volumetric Breast Density Assessments and Implications....Pages 775-782 Back Matter....Pages - Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, IWDM 2012, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in July 2012. The42 revised full papers and58 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected fromnumerous initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on contrast-enhancing imaging, digital mammography methods, tomosynthesis system design, tomosynthesis - image quality and dose, clinical tomosynthesis, functional breast imaging, breast computed tomography, computer-aided diagnosis and image processing, tomosynthesis reconstruction, and breast density