Digital breast tomosynthesis: state of the art

S Vedantham, A Karellas, GR Vijayaraghavan… - Radiology, 2015 - pubs.rsna.org
This topical review on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is provided with the intent of
describing the state of the art in terms of technology, results from recent clinical studies …

A review of breast tomosynthesis. Part II. Image reconstruction, processing and analysis, and advanced applications

I Sechopoulos - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Many important post‐acquisition aspects of breast tomosynthesis imaging can impact its
clinical performance. Chief among them is the reconstruction algorithm that generates the …

Breast tomosynthesis: state-of-the-art and review of the literature

JA Baker, JY Lo - Academic radiology, 2011 - academicradiology.org
Standard analog mammography is a screening success story with the proven capacity to
reduce mortality from breast cancer (1–3). Conventional full-field digital mammography …

Task-based measures of image quality and their relation to radiation dose and patient risk

HH Barrett, KJ Myers, C Hoeschen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The theory of task-based assessment of image quality is reviewed in the context of imaging
with ionizing radiation, and objective figures of merit (FOMs) for image quality are …

Deep convolutional neural network with adversarial training for denoising digital breast tomosynthesis images

M Gao, JA Fessler, HP Chan - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a quasi-three-dimensional imaging modality that can
reduce false negatives and false positives in mass lesion detection caused by overlapping …

Design and application of a structured phantom for detection performance comparison between breast tomosynthesis and digital mammography

L Cockmartin, NW Marshall, G Zhang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper introduces and applies a structured phantom with inserted target objects for the
comparison of detection performance of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) against 2D full …

Model-based deep CNN-regularized reconstruction for digital breast tomosynthesis with a task-based CNN image assessment approach

M Gao, JA Fessler, HP Chan - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a quasi-three-dimensional breast imaging
modality that improves breast cancer screening and diagnosis because it reduces …

Digital breast tomosynthesis: observer performance of clustered microcalcification detection on breast phantom images acquired with an experimental system using …

HP Chan, MM Goodsitt, MA Helvie, S Zelakiewicz… - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To investigate the dependence of microcalcification cluster detectability on
tomographic scan angle, angular increment, and number of projection views acquired at …

Multi-step material decomposition for spectral computed tomography

NR Fredette, A Kavuri, M Das - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectral images from photon counting detectors are being explored for material
decomposition applications such as for obtaining quantitative maps of tissue types and …

Evaluation of a generative adversarial network to improve image quality and reduce radiation-dose during digital breast tomosynthesis

T Gomi, Y Kijima, T Kobayashi, Y Koibuchi - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, we evaluated the improvement of image quality in digital breast tomosynthesis
under low-radiation dose conditions of pre-reconstruction processing using conditional …