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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Detection of breast cancer by soft-copy reading of digital mammograms: Comparison between a routine image-processing parameter and high-contrast parameters

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Pages 15-20 | Accepted 08 Sep 2009, Published online: 19 Nov 2009

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