ABSTRACT
A display system needs to represent image data for the human visual system with high œdelity. In particular, in breast imaging, the display characteristics need to ensure that all details and features in the acquired image are conveyed in optimal ways to the human interpreter to help in the accurate diagnosis of the patient. Particularly for mammography, display systems need to be able to convey detail at high spatial frequencies without adding spurious variations that might confuse the reader. At the same time, the display devices need to perform a careful mapping between the values in the image data and the actual luminance levels that constitute the information that the reader uses for the diagnosis. ™at mapping has to be controlled not only in terms of the calibrated response of the device but also in terms of the variations of the response with angle of view, screen location, time of usage, and for a range of ambient illumination conditions to be found in reading rooms or in rooms where the interpretation of the images take place.
