Virtual clinical trials in medical imaging: a review

E Abadi, WP Segars, BMW Tsui… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The accelerating complexity and variety of medical imaging devices and methods have
outpaced the ability to evaluate and optimize their design and clinical use. This is a …

The role of digital breast tomosynthesis in breast cancer screening: a manufacturer-and metrics-specific analysis

A Hadjipanteli, M Kontos… - Cancer management and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Aim Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), with or without Digital Mammography (DM) or
Synthetic Mammography (SM), has been introduced or is under consideration for its …

The effect of system geometry and dose on the threshold detectable calcification diameter in 2D-mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis

A Hadjipanteli, P Elangovan… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is under consideration to replace or to be used in
combination with 2D-mammography in breast screening. The aim of this study was the …

Population of 224 realistic human subject‐based computational breast phantoms

DW Erickson, JR Wells, GM Sturgeon, E Samei… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To create a database of highly realistic and anatomically variable 3D virtual breast
phantoms based on dedicated breast computed tomography (bCT) data. Methods: A tissue …

A convolutional neural network-based anthropomorphic model observer for signal detection in breast CT images without human-labeled data

B Kim, M Han, J Baek - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various imaging parameters in X-ray computed tomography (CT) should be examined and
optimized by task-based assessment of human observer performance. Recently …

Lesion detectability in 2D-mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis using different targets and observers

P Elangovan, A Mackenzie, DR Dance… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This work investigates the detection performance of specialist and non-specialist observers
for different targets in 2D-mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) using the …

OPTIMAM image simulation toolbox-recent developments and ongoing studies

P Elangovan, A Hadjipanteli, A Mackenzie… - Breast Imaging: 13th …, 2016 - Springer
Virtual clinical trials (VCTs) are increasingly being seen as a viable pre-clinical method for
evaluation of imaging systems in breast cancer screening. The CR-UK funded OPTIMAM …

Detection of microcalcification clusters in 2D-mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis and the relation to the standard method of measuring image quality

A Hadjipanteli, P Elangovan, P Looney… - … Conference on Medical …, 2016 - Springer
The aim of this study was to compare the detection of microcalcification clusters by human
observers in breast images using 2D-mammography and narrow (15°/15 projections) and …

Detection of microcalcification clusters by 2D-mammography and narrow and wide angle digital breast tomosynthesis

A Hadjipanteli, P Elangovan, PT Looney… - … 2016: Physics of …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The aim of this study was to compare the detection of microcalcification clusters by human
observers in breast images using 2D-mammography and narrow (15°/15 projections) and …

Comparison of two-view versus single-view digital breast tomosynthesis and 2D-mammography in breast cancer surveillance imaging

A Hadjipanteli, P Polyviou, I Kyriakopoulos… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Purpose Limited work has been performed for the implementation of digital breast
tomosynthesis (DBT) in breast cancer surveillance imaging. The aim of this study was to …