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Determination of Contrast Sensitivity for Mammographic Softcopy Reading

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Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2008

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Research of visual perception of luminance differences is an important basis for understanding the perception of complex patterns. We introduce a new approach for determining the contrast sensitivity function (CSF) in front of the complex anatomical structures of mammograms. For this purpose a sinusoidal 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.

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Apelt, D., Peitgen, HO. (2008). Determination of Contrast Sensitivity for Mammographic Softcopy Reading. In: Tolxdorff, T., Braun, J., Deserno, T.M., Horsch, A., Handels, H., Meinzer, HP. (eds) Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2008. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78640-5_92

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