| Digital Mammography: 8th International Workshop, Iwdm 2006, Manchester, Uk, June 18-21, 2006, Proceedings 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Astley, Susan M. (Editor), Brady, Michael (Editor), Rose, Chris (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540356258 ISBN-13: 9783540356257 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, IWDM 2006, held in Manchester, UK in June 2006. The 52 revised full papers and 34 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on breast density, CAD, clinical practice, tomosynthesis, registration and multiple view mammmography, physics models, wavelet methods, full-field digital mammography, and segmentation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Computer Graphics - Medical | Administration - Medical | Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine |
| Dewey: 004 |
| LCCN: 2006927811 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.43" W x 9.41" (2.04 lbs) 654 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series records th the proceedings of the 8 International Workshop on Digital Mammography (IWDM), which was held in Manchester, UK, June 18-21, 2006. The meetings bringtogetheradiversesetofresearchers(physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers), clinicians (radiologists, surgeons) and representatives of industry, who are jointly committed to developing technology, not just for its ownsake, but to supportclinicians inthe earlydetection andsubsequentpatient management of breast cancer. The conference series was initiated at a 1993 meeting of the SPIE in San Jose, with subsequent meetings hosted every two years by researchers around the world. Previous meetings were held in York, Chicago, Nijmegen, Toronto, Bremen, and North Carolina. It is interesting to re?ect on the changes that have occurred during the past 13 years. Then, the dominant technology was ?lm-screen mammography; now it is full-?eld digital mammography. Then, there were few screening programmes world-wide; now there are many. Then, there was the hope that computer-aided detection (CAD) of early signs of cancer might be possible; now CAD is not only a reality but (more importantly) a commercially led clinical reality. Then, algorithmswerealmostentirelyheuristicwithlittleclinicalsupport;nowthereis arequirementforsubstantialclinicalsupportforanyalgorithmthatisdeveloped and published. However, upon re?ection, could we have predicted with absolute certainty what would be the key questions to be addressed over the subsequent (say) six years? No That is the nature, joy, and frustration of research. There are more blind alleys to explore than there are rich veins that bring gold (in all senses of that analogy ). |