Cover......Page 1 MAMMOGRAPHY – RECENT ADVANCES......Page 2 ©......Page 3 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 9 Part 1 Optimization of Screening Mammography......Page 11 1 Choice, Trust and Risk - The Policy Context and Mammography Screening......Page 13 2 Meta-Analysis: Culturally Sensitive Education and Mammography Uptake of Minority Women......Page 35 3 How to Optimize Population Screening Programs for Breast Cancer Using Mathematical Models......Page 57 4 Effects of Health Belief and Cancer Fatalism on the Practice of Breast Cancer Screening Among Nigerian Women......Page 81 5 Screening Mammography Need, Utilization and Capacity in Chicago: Can We Fulfill Our Mission and Our Promises?......Page 99 Part 2 Quality Control......Page 117 6 Comparison of Individual Doses During Mammography Screening Examinations with Screen – Film and DR Systems and Optimization Attempts of Exposure Parameters......Page 119 7 An Analysis of Application of Mean Glandular Dose and Factors on Which It Depends to Patients of Various Age Groups......Page 143 8 Assessment of AGD in UAE Hospital......Page 159 Part 3 Novel Diagnostic Approach by Mammography......Page 181 9 Is Mammographic Density a Biomarker to Study the Molecular Causes of Breast Cancer?......Page 183 10 Mammographic Density Under Hormonal and Hormone-Like Treatments......Page 209 11 Evaluation of Mammographic Segmentation and Risk Classification Based on Tabár Tissue Modelling......Page 227 12 MIDAS – Mammographic Image Database for Automated Analysis......Page 253 13 Fusion of Two-View Information: SVD Based Modeling for Computerized Classification of Breast Lesions on Mammograms......Page 271 14 Breast CAD (Computer Aided Detection) in FFDM (Full Field Digital Mammography)......Page 291 Part 4 Emerging Technologies – Computer Aided Detection, Diagnosis and Digital Mammography......Page 289 15 Metrological Assessment of a CAD System for the Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Digital Mammography......Page 303 16 Computerized Image Analysis of Mammographic Microcalcifications: Diagnosis and Prognosis......Page 331 17 Photovoltaic GaAs Detectors for Digital X-Ray Imaging......Page 351 18 Optimization of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) for Breast Cancer Diagnosis......Page 365 Part 5 Clinical Case Reports......Page 381 19 Fat Necrosis......Page 383 20 A Case of a Secretory Carcinoma of the Breast: Radio-Pathological Correlation......Page 399 21 Radiologic Features of Triple Negative Breast Cancer......Page 409
