ThisbookcomprisesthescientificproceedingsoftheInternationalWorkshop
onDigitalMammography(IWDM),heldinBremen,Germany,fromJune22
toJune25,2002. Sinceitsinceptionin1992,IWDMhasgrownintotheIn-
ternationalForumonDigitalMammography. TheuniquenessofIWDMisits
attractivenesstoresearchers,medicalpractitioners,andindustrialdevelopers.
F6rmerworkshopswereheldinSanJose,USA(1992),York,UK(1994),
Chicago,USA(1996),Nijmegen,NL(1998),andToronto,Canada(2000). Each
ofthesescientificeventshasbeencombinedwithverysuccessfulandfocused
industrialandresearchexhibits,whichdemonstratedthemilestonesofdigital
mammographyhard-andsoftware.
Now,thatdigitalmammographyisenteringroutineclinicaluse,wewitness
itsstrongimpactonscreeninganddiagnosticmammography,computeraided
detection,minimallyinvasiveprocedures,andthedevelopmentofsystemicand
integrateddisease-orientedbreastcare.
Inviewofthis,the2002workshoppro-
videdawindowtogiveusaglanceatthefuture,andtheworkwhichwas
presentedintalks,postersandexhibitshasdemonstratedthatIWDM2002will
takeaspecialplaceintheverysuccessfulsequenceofIWDMevents.
Finally,asconferencechair,Iwouldliketothankallwhohavehelpedtopre-
pareandrunIWDM2002:theScientificAdvisoryBoardforitsexcellentworkin
guaranteeingscientificsignificance,theOrganizationalBoardforitshardworkto
accomplishanappropriateframeworkfortheevent,andtheindustrialexhibitors
andsponsorsfortheirgeneroussupport. Bremen,January2003 Heinz-Otto
Peitgen ConferenceChair ProfessorofMathematicsand
BiomedicalSciences VI Scientific Committee SusanAstley
UniversityofManchester,UK UlrichBick
CharitBerlin,Germany/UniversityofChicago,USA MichaelBrady
OxfordUniversity,UK HiroshiFujita GifuUniversity,Japan
MaryellenGiger UniversityofChicago,USA NicoKarssemeijer
UniversityHospitalNijmegen,TheNetherlands
Heinz-OttoPeitgenUniversityofBremen,Germany EttaD. Pisano
UniversityofNorthCarolina,USA MartinYaffe
UniversityofToronto,Canada IWDM 2002 was supported by (MeViS
SIEMENS BreastCare medical I' General Electric ARC-0 Fllmle. .
Perfection for DI I JMammography Table of Contents Imaging Systems
and Detectors...1
DigitalMammographicApplicationofaSinglePhotonCountingPixel
Detector...3 Amendolia SR, Bisogni MG, Delogu P, Fantacci ME,
Novelli M, Quattrocchi M, Rosso V, Stefanini A, Zucca S
BreastCancerScreeningUsingaDedicatedBreastCTScanner:A
FeasibilityStudy...6 Boone JM, Lindfors KK, Seibert JA, Nelson TR
PhysicalEvaluationofaPrototypefortheSectraMicrodose
MammographySystem...12 Lundqvist M, Bergstrom D, Cederstrom B,
Chmill V, Chuntonov A, Danielsson M, Aslund M
DoseMeasurementsonaScanningMulti-slitDigitalMammography System...17
Hansson B, Cederstrom B, Danielsson M, Aslund M
DigitalMammographyvs. toScreen-FilmMammography:aPhantom Study...20
Heid P, PagliuchiC, Seradour B, Motte N, Langlois L, Kurkdjian S,
Piana L
MammographyTaxonomyforImprovementofLesionDetectionRates...27 Howard
D, Roberts SC, Tabar L AHighResolution(25 p.
m)HybridSelenium/CCDSlotScanDetector forDigitalMammography...33
Hunter DM, De CrescenzoG, Mainprize JG, Mawdsley GE, SmithC, Kasap
SO, Rowlands JAR, Tumer T, Yin S, Yaffe MJ
Co-registeredBreastImagingwith3DX-Raysand3DUltrasound...38 Kapur A,
Eberhard JW, Abdalmajeid AM, Thomenius K
ImagingCharacteristicsofaDirectConversionFull-FieldDigital
MammographyDetectorusingSelenium...4 3 Lee DL, Yorker lG, ling Z,
leromin LS
SimultaneousAcquisitionofDiffraction,ScatteringandPhase-Contrast
ImagesbyMeansofaMulti-LayerEdge-OnMicrostripDetector 48 Olivo A,
Arfelli P, Bergamaschi A, Dreossi D, Longo R, Menk RH, Montanari F,
Pani S, Poropat P, Rigon L, Vallazza E, Castelli E VIII
FullFieldDigitalMammographywithaCCDBasedSlot-Scanned Detector.
PhysicalCharacteristicsMeasurements...
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