Process for reducing false negative mammography bilateral registration

This paper appears in: Bioengineering Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE 30th Annual Northeast
Issue Date: 17-18 April 2004
On page(s): 69 - 70
ISSN:
Print ISBN: 0-7803-8285-4
Cited by : 1
INSPEC Accession Number: 8096976
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/NEBC.2004.1299997
Date of Current Version: 24 May 2004

August, K.; Biswal, B.; Reisman, S.;
New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA

Abstract

Each woman presents slightly different risk factors that should be considered during mammography image interpretation to reduce the risk of false negative. Given the complexity of the risk situation, and the variety of practical and affordable image processing techniques available, processes and systems sensitive to individual risk factors may reduce false negative reports. Bilateral registration as a process improvement may help to reduce risk of false negative mammography by providing statistical objective metrics to identify regions of interest in screening at risk women for whom historic images are not available, or for whom historic images are not useable.