MAGIC-5: an Italian mammographic database of digitised images for research

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MAGIC-5: an Italian mammographic database of digitised images for research

Raffaella Massafra E. López Torres Francesco Fauci Ubaldo Bottigli Piernicola Oliva P. Cerello Alessandra Retico S. Bagnasco R. Ienzi R. Magro Giuseppe Raso Donato Cascio Giovanni Luca Masala Maria Evelina Fantacci S.c. Cheran G. Gargano G. Gargano Giovanni Battista Meloni Rosella Cataldo Sabina Tangaro Adele Lauria A. P. Caricato P. Monno A. Sodano M. Bazzocchi E. Zanon Roberto Bellotti Roberto Bellotti E. Lattanzio Pasquale Delogu F. De Carlo F. De Carlo

subject

Adult Lesion type Databases Factual mammographic database Breast Neoplasms CAD computer.software_genre Sensitivity and Specificity Database Medical imaging Humans Medicine Mammography Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Grid Medical image processing Medical diagnosis Aged Retrospective Studies Graphical user interface computer assisted detection Database Point (typography)medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Magic (programming)General Medicine Middle Aged image processing Radiographic Image Enhancement Italy Radiographic Image Interpretation Computer-Assisted Female Tomography X-Ray Computed business database; mammography; medical image processing; grid computer Mammography

description

The implementation of a database of digitised mammograms is discussed. The digitised images were collected beginning in 1999 by a community of physicists in collaboration with radiologists in several Italian hospitals as a first step in developing and implementing a computer-aided detection (CAD) system. All 3,369 mammograms were collected from 967 patients and classified according to lesion type and morphology, breast tissue and pathology type. A dedicated graphical user interface was developed to visualise and process mammograms to support the medical diagnosis directly on a high-resolution screen. The database has been the starting point for developing other medical imaging applications, such as a breast CAD, currently being upgraded and optimised for use in a distributed environment with grid services, in the framework of the Instituto Nazionale di Fisicia Nucleare (INFN)-funded Medical Applications on a Grid Infrastructure Connection (MAGIC)-5 project.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2008-01-01	La radiologia medica

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11547-008-0282-5