Reconstruction of Mammography Projections using Image-to-Image Translation Techniques
Joana Cristo Santos, Miriam Seoane Santos, Pedro Henriques Abreu · 2024
Mammography imaging is the gold standard for breast cancer detection and involves capturing two projections: mediolateral oblique and craniocaudal projections.The implementation of an approach that allows the acquisition of only one projection and reconstructs the other could mitigate patient burden, minimize radiation exposure, and reduce costs.Image-to-image translation has showcased the ability to generate realistic synthetic images in different medical imaging modalities which make these techniques a great candidate for the novel application in mammography.This study aims to compare five image-to-image translation approaches to assess the feasibility of reconstructing a mammography projection from its counterpart.The results indicate that ResViT shows the best overall performance in translating between both projections.