Generation and evaluation of physically inspired synthetic mammograms

Author

Bakic, Predrag ; Albert, Michae ; Brzakovic, Dragana ; Maidment, Andrew D A

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1047

Abstract

A software breast phantom, based upon a breast tissue model derived from physical properties of breast anatomy, has been developed for mammography simulation. Synthetic mammograms, obtained by applying a breast compression model and an X-ray acquisition model to the software breast phantom, were compared by quantitative and qualitative means with real mammograms at different scales. Good agreement was observed for two texture measures at a resolution of 500 μm/pixel

Keywords

biological tissues; diagnostic radiography; fractals; image texture; mammography; medical image processing; physiological models; X-ray acquisition model; adipose tissue; anthropomorphic phantom; breast anatomy; breast compression model; breast tissue model; fibroglandular tissue; fractal analysis; mammography simulation; physical properties; software breast phantom; synthetic mammogram generation; texture measures; Anatomy; Anthropomorphism; Breast tissue; Deformable models; Image coding; Imaging phantoms; Mammography; Software quality; Solid modeling; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6465-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2000.897906

Filename

897906