Skip to main content

Contrast Sensitivity in Mammographic Softcopy Reading – Determination with Psychophysical Procedures

  • Conference paper
Digital Mammography (IWDM 2008)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNIP,volume 5116))

Included in the following conference series:

  • 1354 Accesses

Abstract

We introduce a new approach for determining the contrast sensitivity function (CSF) in front of the anatomical noise of mammograms. This permits fundamental investigations on the influence of viewing conditions and image presentation parameters on the perception of contrast. A Gabor pattern and digits are used as target items. The approximation to contrast thresholds is done by a psychophysical staircase procedure and is performed for a selection of spatial frequencies. The results of an observer study with different mammographic cases show, that the approach is applicable independent of the chosen images. For conditions with a duration of at least 3 to 4 minutes the CSF can be determined for a set of spatial frequencies.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Barten, P.G.J.: Contrast Sensitivity of the Human Eye and Its Effects on Image Quality. SPIE Press Monograph PM72 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Fletcher-Heath, L., Van Metter, R.: Quantifying the performance of human and software CDMAM phantom image observers for the qualification of digital mammography systems. In: Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5745, pp. 486–498 (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Burgess, A.E., Jacobson, F.L., Judy, P.F.: Mass Discrimination in Mammography: Experiments Using Hybrid Images. Academic Radiology 10, 1247–1256 (2003)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Strasburger, H.: Indirect Vision. Hogrefe, Göttingen (in German) (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Kaernbach, C.: Adaptive threshold estimation with unforced-choice tasks. Perception & Psychophysics 63(8), 1377–1388 (2001)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Editor information

Elizabeth A. Krupinski

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Apelt, D., Peitgen, HO. (2008). Contrast Sensitivity in Mammographic Softcopy Reading – Determination with Psychophysical Procedures. In: Krupinski, E.A. (eds) Digital Mammography. IWDM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_104

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_104

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-70537-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-70538-3

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics