Paper Info
Title
Estimation of corresponding locations in ipsilateral mammograms: a comparison of different methods
Abstract
Mammography is a standard tool for breast cancer diagnosis. In current clinical practice, typically two mammograms of each breast are taken from different angles. A fundamental step when using ipsilateral mammograms for the diagnosis of breast cancer, is the identification of corresponding locations/structures in both views, which is a very challenging task due to the projective nature of the images and the different compression parameters used for each view. In this contribution, four different approaches for the estimation of corresponding locations in ipsilateral mammograms are systematically compared using 46 mammogram pairs (50 point-to-point correspondences). The evaluation includes simple heuristic methods (annular bands and straight strips) as well as methods based on geometric and physically motivated breast compression models, which aim to simulate the mammogram acquisition process. The evaluation results show that on average no significant differences exist between the estimation accuracies obtained using the simple heuristic methods and the more involved compression models. However, the results of this study indicate the potential of a method that optimally combines the different approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1117/12.2081862
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
medical diagnostics,breast cancer
Conference
9414
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Wilms14814.91
Julia Krüger2167.63
Mirko Marx351.92
Jan Ehrhardt438754.33
Arpad Bischof5104.02
Heinz Handels61527239.84