Reducing noise of medical grade Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) and its relation to the detection of micro-calcifications

Hans Roehrig, Jiahua Fan, William J. Dallas, Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Jeffrey Johnson

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Abstract

This communication is the result of an NIH SBIR Phase 1 project under way because of the concern for wide spread breast-cancer [1,2]. The primary goal of the project is to increase the detection rate of micro calcifications by decreasing spatial noise of the LCD used to display the mammograms [3,4]. Noise reduction will be done with a sensitive CCD Camera and application of Error Diffusion [5,6]. This procedure is known to reduce threshold contrast of human observers [7]. A second goal is the detection of breast cancer using mammogram patches with a pixel matrix of 256 x 256 pixels. Detection of breast cancer will be done using two methods: One is a conventional ROC study [8]. The other is a Vision Model developed over several years, starting at the Sarnoff Research Center and continuing at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton NJ [9].

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationDigital Mammography - 9th International Workshop, IWDM 2008, Proceedings
Pages249-256
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event9th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, IWDM 2008 - Tucson, AZ, United States
Duration: Jul 20 2008Jul 23 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5116 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other9th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, IWDM 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTucson, AZ
Period7/20/087/23/08

Keywords

  • Anatomic noise
  • Error Diffusion
  • Human Visual System
  • LCD noise reduction
  • LCD spatial noise
  • Noise map

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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