How do lesion size and random noise affect detection performance in digital mammography?

Walter Huda1, Kent M Ogden, Ernest M Scalzetti

  • 1Department of Radiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA. hudaw@upstate.edu

Academic Radiology
|October 31, 2006
PubMed
Summary

Mammography lesion detection depends on size. Larger lesions (>1 mm) are detected based on anatomical structure, while smaller lesions (<1 mm) are significantly impacted by random noise, reducing detectability.

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