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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:
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One is a conventional ROC study [8].
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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].
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Roehrig, H., Fan, J., Dallas, W.J., Krupinski, E.A., Johnson, J. (2008). Reducing Noise of Medical Grade Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) and Its Relation to the Detection of Micro-calcifications. 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_35
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