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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Express

Keywords

Images; Mammograms; Risk; Optics

Abstract

Mathematical phantoms developed to synthesize realistic complex backgrounds such as those obtained when imaging biological tissue, play a key role in the quantitative assessment of image quality for medical and biomedical imaging. We present a modeling framework for the synthesis of realistic tissue samples. The technique is demonstrated using radiological breast tissue. The model employs a two-component image decomposition consisting of a slowly, spatially varying mean-background and a residual texture image. Each component is synthesized independently. The approach and results presented here constitute an important step towards developing methods for the quantitative assessment of image quality in medical and biomedical imaging, and more generally image science.

Journal Title

Optics Express

Volume

1

Issue/Number

13

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

414

Last Page

423

WOS Identifier

WOS:000208802600004

ISSN

1094-4087

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