title: Fischer's Fused Full Field Digital Mammography and Ultrasound System (FFDMUS).
abstract: It has been well established that X-ray modality when combined with ultrasound modality increases sensitivity and specificity of breast lesion detections. Under the NIH grant, Fischer has developed a fused full-field digital mammography and ultrasound system (FFDMUS), which has ability to acquire 2-D X-ray mammogram and 3-D ultrasound images simultaneously. This novel technology generates co-registered breast images of X-ray and ultrasound images. The co-registration error between X-ray and ultrasound images acquired is within 2.00 mm in scan direction, and is 0.5 mm in anterior-posterior direction. We did the performance evaluation of the system, and concluded that the ultrasound image qualities from FFDMUS and Hand-held ultrasound (HHUS) are comparable, and the X-ray image qualities from FFDMUS and SenoScan(R) are also comparable. We also developed a preliminary CAD registration and segmentation system for FFDMUS datasets.
authors.affiliation: Fischer Imaging Corporation, Denver, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Jasjit S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Suri
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Danielson
authors.forename: Yujun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Janer
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast; D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008327:Mammography; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity