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The use of digital health technology and social media to support breast screening (2015)
Book Chapter
Robinson, L., Griffiths, M., Wray, J., Ure, C., & Stein-Hodgins, J. (2015). The use of digital health technology and social media to support breast screening. In P. Hogg, & J. Kelly (Eds.), Digital Mammography : A Holistic Approach (105-111). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_13

‘Digital health’ is an overarching concept that currently lacks theoretical definition and common terminology. For instance, this broad and emerging field includes all of the following terms within its lexicon: mHealth, Wireless Health, Health 2.0, e... Read More about The use of digital health technology and social media to support breast screening.

Observer studies in mammography (2015)
Book Chapter
Hogg, P., Millington, S., Manning, D., & Mraity, H. (2015). Observer studies in mammography. In Digital Mammography (291-302). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_36

Mammography is a special imaging technique and is unusual in a number of ways: Some of these are technical because of the type of tissue under investigation and some apply to the distinctive nature of the client group. But in one important aspect mam... Read More about Observer studies in mammography.

A novel image enhancement methodology for full field digital mammography (2014)
Book Chapter
He, W., Kibiro, M., Juette, A., Denton, E., Hogg, P., & Zwiggelaar, R. (2014). A novel image enhancement methodology for full field digital mammography. In Breast Imaging : 12th International Workshop, IWDM 2014, Gifu City, Japan, June 29 – July 2, 2014. Proceedings (650-657). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07887-8_90

During breast screening it is necessary and essential to compress the breast with a compression paddle, in order to obtain a clear mammographic image. The quality of the image has a direct correlation with the accuracy of mammogram reading, which in... Read More about A novel image enhancement methodology for full field digital mammography.