Editor's Corner: Hard copy or digital

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Soft Copy Digital Mammography

Soft Copy Digital Mammography creen-film mammography (SFM) has been the standard method used for breast cancer screening and making a clinical diagnosis. It is a valuable modality for the detection and differentiation of breast calcifications. The advantages are the high spatital resolution, the convinient display, and inexpensiveness. However, it has some inherent limitations such as its low d...

Flat-panel digital mammography system: contrast-detail comparison between screen-film radiographs and hard-copy images.

PURPOSE To compare the contrast-detail (CD) characteristics of screen-film (SF) and postprocessed digital images by using a phantom-based method. MATERIALS AND METHODS Images of a CD phantom with polymerized methyl methacrylate were acquired with SF and full-field digital mammography systems at matched exposure conditions. A four-alternative forced-choice experiment was conducted with seven o...

Copy Editors Claudia Chesley, Karen Foster, Thomas Gryczan,

An Editors Perspective on Digital Pathology

There is currently a major disconnection in the publishing universe not only for retention, transmission, and analysis of digital images in pathology but also for new and emerging computationally intensive imaging methodologies. Many authors gravitate towards engineering journals, which are not usually read by pathologists or, for that matter, most biomedical investigators. The pathobiological ...