title: [Clinical application of a digital method in mammographic image processing].
abstract: The authors describe digital processing of mammographic images based on simulation of the procedure performed by radiologists to analyse radiographs. Image processing allows automatically enhancing contrasts and expressing them as a range of different light intensities and colors. Minimum contrast differences that are difficult to perceive with the bare eye are thus highly enhanced. This processing of mammographic images has proved useful not only to detect discrete lesions, but also to differentiate benign and malignant lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Rui Jin Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University.
authors.forename: X K
authors.initials: XK
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Rong
authors.forename: X S
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: D Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Nan
authors.forename: Y Z
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Ping
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged