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In Japan, soft-copy diagnoses shift rapidly, and the method for facilities applying it is necessary for soft-copy diagnosis. Digital mammography has high resolution and a large matrix size. On a monitor, the image is either displayed partially at 1:1 pixel mapping or narrowed to fit the screen, resulting in loss of image quality. Therefore, we developed a digital phantom for soft-copy diagnosis in digital mammography. This phantom is like the Contrast Detail Phantom and comprises 12 different shapes and eight different brightness levels. It becomes one group of nine, and each signal is located at the prime number coordinate from a central signal coordinate. Visual evaluation refers to the visibility of the nine signal coordinates when the image is adjusted to fit the monitor’s display. Although digital phantoms have been implemented at 120 facilities, at two other facilities, viewer problems were detected.
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Shinohara, N., Horita, K., Endo, T. (2016). Development of Digital Phantom for Digital Mammography with Soft-Copy Reading. In: Tingberg, A., Lång, K., Timberg, P. (eds) Breast Imaging. IWDM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41546-8_9
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