Lesion detectability in automated breast ultrasound

Sara Bahramian; Keith Wear

doi:10.1117/12.2043978

20 March 2014 Lesion detectability in automated breast ultrasound

Sara Bahramian, Keith Wear

Proceedings Volume 9040, Medical Imaging 2014: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 904008 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043978
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Automated Breast Ultrasound systems introduce a new ultrasound-imaging technology to address some of the drawbacks of the traditional handheld ultrasound. The detection performance of this new technology is studied. The lesion detectability performance is measured using Monte-Carlo simulation techniques for the observers of the synthesized images generated by the automated breast ultrasound systems. This performance is compared to detection performance of the observer when handheld ultrasound images are available. It is shown that resolution degradation in the synthesized images results in lower detection performance as compared to the handheld images scanning the same plane.

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Sara Bahramian and Keith Wear "Lesion detectability in automated breast ultrasound", Proc. SPIE 9040, Medical Imaging 2014: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 904008 (20 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043978

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