Digital Mammography 8th International Workshop, IWDM 2006, Mancheste

This volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series records th the proceedings of the 8 International Workshop on Digital Mammography (IWDM), which was held in Manchester, UK, June 18–21, 2006. The meetings bringtogetheradiversesetofresearc

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Susan M. Astley Michael Brady Chris Rose Reyer Zwiggelaar (Eds.)

Digital Mammography 8th International Workshop, IWDM 2006 Manchester, UK, June 18-21, 2006 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Susan M. Astley Chris Rose University of Manchester Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, Stopford Medical Building Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Michael Brady Oxford University Department of Engineering Science Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK E-mail: [email protected] Reyer Zwiggelaar University of Wales Department of Computer Science Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DB, Wales, UK E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

This volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series records the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Digital Mammography (IWDM), which was held in Manchester, UK, June 18–21, 2006. The meetings bring together a diverse set of researchers (physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers), clinicians (radiologi