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Predrag Bakic

Associate Professor

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Mammogram synthesis using a 3D simulation. I. Breast tissue model and image acquisition simulation

Author

  • Predrag R. Bakic
  • Michael Albert
  • Dragana Brzakovic
  • Andrew D.A. Maidment

Summary, in English

A method is proposed for generating synthetic mammograms based upon simulations of breast tissue and the mammographic imaging process. A computer breast model has been designed with a realistic distribution of large and medium scale tissue structures. Parameters controlling the size and placement of simulated structures (adipose compartments and ducts) provide a method for consistently modeling images of the same simulated breast with modified position or acquisition parameters. The mammographic imaging process is simulated using a compression model and a model of the x-ray image acquisition process. The compression model estimates breast deformation using tissue elasticity parameters found in the literature and clinical force values. The synthetic mammograms were generated by a mammogram acquisition model using a monoenergetic parallel beam approximation applied to the synthetically compressed breast phantom.

Publishing year

2002-09

Language

English

Pages

2131-2139

Publication/Series

Medical Physics

Volume

29

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Topic

  • Medical Engineering

Keywords

  • 3D
  • Breast tissue
  • Mammographic compression
  • Mammography simulation
  • X-ray image acquisition

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0094-2405