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A Clustering Method for the Extraction of Microcalcifications Using Epipolar Curves in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

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Digital Mammography (IWDM 2010)

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DBT provides significantly more information than mammography. This offers new opportunities to improve existing microcalcification detection methods. In a companion work in this volume, we showed that the use of epipolar curves can improve both the sensitivity and specificity of microcalcification detection. In this paper, we develop a clustering algorithm to form epipolar curves from candidate microcalcifications (which may be noise points), obtained after applying a detection algorithm to each individual projection. This enables the subsequent 3D analysis for the classification of microcalcification clusters.

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Ho, C.P.S., Tromans, C.E., Schnabel, J.A., Brady, S.M. (2010). A Clustering Method for the Extraction of Microcalcifications Using Epipolar Curves in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis. In: Martí, J., Oliver, A., Freixenet, J., Martí, R. (eds) Digital Mammography. IWDM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_92

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