Recognition of detail in mammography

Dörte Apelt; Hans Strasburger; Richard Rascher-Friesenhausen; Jan Klein; Bernhard Preim; Heinz-Otto Peitgen

doi:10.1117/12.810237

12 March 2009 Recognition of detail in mammography

Dörte Apelt, Hans Strasburger, Richard Rascher-Friesenhausen, Jan Klein, Bernhard Preim, Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Proceedings Volume 7263, Medical Imaging 2009: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 72631B (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.810237
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2009, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

In radiological practice the term recognition of detail is widely used. We examined how the term can be defined and interpreted, and how recognition of detail relates to radiological phantoms such as CDMAM (Contrast Detail Mammography). For tasks in visual perception a processing hierarchy can be assumed: The perception of a structure can occur at different processing levels, such as required in detection, discrimination, identification and recognition, with an ascending order of hierarchical relation. It is not always possible to predict from results at one hierarchy level those at another level. If an observer detects a structure, there is no prediction whether the observer will be able to discriminate the structure from another or whether he or she is even able to interpret the structure. Furthermore, the perceptibility of a detail is influenced by surrounding or overlapping anatomical noise. The presence of noise elevates visual thresholds and may change the overall perceptual behavior with regard to the examined parameter. Thus, perceptibility of structures (details) is strongly bound to the type of perceptual task and the image background used. Speaking of recognition of detail should not liberally extended to evaluating performance parameters of a technical system. If the term is applied, it needs to be specified how detail is characterized and which perceptual task is used for operationalizing recognition.

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Dörte Apelt, Hans Strasburger, Richard Rascher-Friesenhausen, Jan Klein, Bernhard Preim, and Heinz-Otto Peitgen "Recognition of detail in mammography", Proc. SPIE 7263, Medical Imaging 2009: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 72631B (12 March 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.810237

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Mammography

Visualization

Contrast sensitivity

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