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Acceleration Of Digital Tomosynthesis Mammography Using Graphics Processors, Diego Rivera, Micha Moffie, Dana Schaa, David Kaeli Apr 2012

Acceleration Of Digital Tomosynthesis Mammography Using Graphics Processors, Diego Rivera, Micha Moffie, Dana Schaa, David Kaeli

David Kaeli

The objective of this poster is to help to improve the efficiency of early breast cancer detection and minimize the processing cost of the Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Mammography technique.


Simultaneous Estimation And Segmentation Of T1 Map For Breast Parenchyma Measurement, Ye Xing, Yangming Ou, Sarah Englander, Mitchell D. Schnall, Dinggang Shen Feb 2012

Simultaneous Estimation And Segmentation Of T1 Map For Breast Parenchyma Measurement, Ye Xing, Yangming Ou, Sarah Englander, Mitchell D. Schnall, Dinggang Shen

Sarah Englander

Breast density has been shown to be an independent risk factor for breast cancer. In order to segment breast parenchyma, which has been proposed as a biomarker of breast cancer risk, we present an integrated algorithm for simultaneous T1 map estimation and segmentation, using a series of magnetic resonance (MR) breast images. The advantage of using this algorithm is that the step of T1 map estimation (E-Step) and the step of T1 map based tissue segmentation (S-Step) can benefit each other. Since the estimated T1 map can be noisy due to the complexity of T1 estimation method, the tentative tissue …