Digital Mammography : 8th International Workshop, IWDM 2006, Manchester, UK, June 18-21, 2006, Proceedings / edited by Susan M. Astley, Michael Brady, Chris Rose, Reyer Zwiggelaar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Astley, S. (Sue), editor.

Brady, M. Michael, editor.

Rose, Chris, 1959- editor.

Zwiggelaar, Reyer, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

LNCS sublibrary. Image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and graphics ; SL 6, 4046.

Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics ; 4046

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Optical data processing.

Medical informatics.

Radiology.

Information storage and retrieval.

Pattern perception.

Bioinformatics.

Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Health Informatics.

Imaging / Radiology.

Information Storage and Retrieval.

Pattern Recognition.

Local Subjects:

Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Health Informatics.

Imaging / Radiology.

Information Storage and Retrieval.

Pattern Recognition.

Bioinformatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVI, 654 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2006.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series records th the proceedings of the 8 International Workshop on Digital Mammography (IWDM), which was held in Manchester, UK, June 18-21, 2006. The meetings bringtogetheradiversesetofresearchers(physicists,mathematicians,computer scientists, engineers), clinicians (radiologists, surgeons) and representatives of industry, who are jointly committed to developing technology, not just for its ownsake,but to supportclinicians inthe earlydetection andsubsequentpatient management of breast cancer. The conference series was initiated at a 1993 meeting of the SPIE in San Jose, with subsequent meetings hosted every two years by researchers around the world. Previous meetings were held in York, Chicago, Nijmegen, Toronto, Bremen, and North Carolina. It is interesting to re?ect on the changes that have occurred during the past 13 years. Then, the dominant technology was ?lm-screen mammography; now it is full-?eld digital mammography. Then, there were few screening programmes world-wide; now there are many. Then, there was the hope that computer-aided detection (CAD) of early signs of cancer might be possible; now CAD is not only a reality but (more importantly) a commercially led clinical reality. Then, algorithmswerealmostentirelyheuristicwithlittleclinicalsupport;nowthereis arequirementforsubstantialclinicalsupportforanyalgorithmthatisdeveloped and published. However, upon re?ection, could we have predicted with absolute certainty what would be the key questions to be addressed over the subsequent (say) six years? No! That is the nature, joy, and frustration of research. There are more blind alleys to explore than there are rich veins that bring gold (in all senses of that analogy!).

Contents:

Breast Density

CAD

Clinical Practice

Tomosynthesis

Registration and Multiple View Mammography

Physics Models

Poster Session

Wavelet Methods

Full-Field Digital Mammography

Segmentation.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-540-35627-1

9783540356271

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