Investigação do uso de imagens mamográficas adquiridas em diferentes digitalizadores no desempenho do processamento de imagens para detecção de microcalcificações / Investigation of the use of mammographic images digitized in different scanners for detection of clustered microcalcifications

AUTOR(ES)

Renata de Freitas Góis

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This work is intended in comparing the results from a mammographic images processing scheme considering images sets digitized by a laser and by an optical scanners (Lumiscan50 and Umax Powerlook 1120 units, respectively). By means of a statistical analysis, we could verify that the optical scanner yields a remarkable increase in the digitized image intensity (gray scale) relative to the original mammogram. A procedure was developed to compensate the shift each digitizers characteristic curves relative to the film one, as a function of such responses. Then, selected images from phantom exposures as well as from actual mammographic exams were digitized by both scanners and processed by a previously developed segmentation technique for detection of clustered microcalcifications in order to establish the comparisons. The results have shown that, considering the use of images digitized by both types of scanners, there was an equivalence between the two images sets as for sensibility as well as for specificity, but only when applied the transformation technique based on the analysis of the digitizers respective characteristic curves. Although the scheme performance was about 10% more efficient with the images set from the laser scanner, when an intensity level decrease procedure was introduced to the images from the optical digitizer – which means to approach its characteristic curve to the laser digitizer one – the segmentation results were equivalent. Therefore, taking into account that the laser technology is very expensive while the CCD one is notably smaller, the results show that extending the CCD technology use to CAD schemes in mammography is a real possibility, without prejudice the processing efficacy. But this is possible only when applied the appropriate correction by means of the characteristic curves study.

ASSUNTO(S)

processamento de imagens mamografia scanners cad schemes mammography images processing scanners esquema cad

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