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Although breast ultrasound has become an important tool in the women's imaging diagnostic armamentarium, these exams are often time-consuming and operator-dependent. Researchers from Taiwan and Korea hope to change all that, however, with a new computer-aided detection (CAD) technique that uses a 3D image processing scheme to improve early detection of breast cancer.
At the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting in Berlin, Ruey-Feng Chang, Ph.D., from the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics at National Taiwan University in Taipei, shared details on the software, which was used in tandem with a whole-breast ultrasound system to detect early breast tumors with high sensitivity.
International editor Eric Barnes has our coverage of the talk, which is the subject of this month's Insider Exclusive. To learn more about this new 3D CAD approach, click here.
In other continuing coverage from CARS, a new image processing technique is showing potential for improving the utility of wireless capsule endoscopy. Also, Brazilian researchers described their experience with integrating CAD technology and PACS -- to learn more, click here.
In other featured articles this month in your Advanced Visualization Digital Community, a 3D cardiac MRI tool was found to improve preplanning of pediatric surgery. In addition, a recent multicenter study found that differences with even modest 3D JPEG 2000 compression ratios could be perceived on thin-slice CT images of the chest and abdomen-pelvis.
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