Image-based reconstruction of anthropomorphic breast phantoms for synthetic mammogram generation

03/10/2025

Image-based reconstruction of anthropomorphic breast phantoms for synthetic mammogram generation

Martina Oria1,2, Riccardo Ferrero1, Chiara Andreis3, Marta Vicentini1, Ruben van Engen4, Carlijn Roozemond1, Paola Lamberti3, Sara Remogna3, and Alessandra Manzin

1Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Torino, Italy

2Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

3Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy

4Dutch Expert Centre for Screening (LRCB), Nijmegen, Netherlands

Image-based reconstruction of anthropomorphic breast phantoms for synthetic mammogram generation, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Volume 198, Part A, 111121, 1 October 2025; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.111121.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001048252501474X

The aim of this work is the generation of realistic synthetic mammograms, using as an input of the imaging acquisition simulation process digital anthropomorphic phantoms, reconstructed from sets of dedicated breast computed tomography (BCT) images from different patients.