DDSM,DDSM,DDSM,DDSM,DDSM,DDSM,DDSM,DDSM,DDSM,DDSM,Provision,DDSM,mammography,metadata,accessible,format,PURPOSE:,Digital,Database,Screening,Mammography,,DDSM,,largest,publicly,available,resource,mammographic,image,analysis,research,used,extensively,past,computer,assisted,diagnosis,,CADx,,studies,However,,database,searchable,specific,kind,lesion,,rendered,case,selection,process,past,studies,often,times,arbitrary,Therefore,,authors,want,provide,complete,metadata,DDSM,accessible,format.<br>METHODS:,authors,semiautomatically,transformed,data,available,athttp://marathon.csee.usf.edu/Mammography/Database.html,table,format,1769,cases,,914,cancer,volumes,,855,benign,volumes,,comprise,1220,mass,lesions,,578,benign,,642,malignant,,859,calcifications,,433,benign,,426,malignant,,Additionally,,694,normal,cases,processed,allow,matching,according,age,breast,density.<br>RESULTS:,authors,provide,entire,DDSM,metadata,,benign,,malignant,,normal,cases,,tab-delimited,text,files[see,supplementary,material,http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4870379E-MPHYA6-41-006405,DDSM,metadata].<br>CONCLUSIONS:,data,provided,make,case,selection,future,studies,using,DDSM,reproducible,Furthermore,,may,serve,validation,dataset,CADx,approaches,using,BI-RADS,lexicon.<br>,Provision,DDSM,mammography,metadata,accessible,format,PURPOSE:,Digital,Database,Screening,Mammography,,DDSM,,largest,publicly,available,resource,mammographic,image,analysis,research,used,extensively,past,computer,assisted,diagnosis,,CADx,,studies,However,,database,searchable,specific,kind,lesion,,rendered,case,selection,process,past,studies,often,times,arbitrary,Therefore,,authors,want,provide,complete,metadata,DDSM,accessible,format.<br>METHODS:,authors,semiautomatically,transformed,data,available,athttp://marathon.csee.usf.edu/Mammography/Database.html,table,format,1769,cases,,914,cancer,volumes,,855,benign,volumes,,comprise,1220,mass,lesions,,578,benign,,642,malignant,,859,calcifications,,433,benign,,426,malignant,,Additionally,,694,normal,cases,processed,allow,matching,according,age,breast,density.<br>RESULTS:,authors,provide,entire,DDSM,metadata,,benign,,malignant,,normal,cases,,tab-delimited,text,files[see,supplementary,material,http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4870379E-MPHYA6-41-006405,DDSM,metadata].<br>CONCLUSIONS:,data,provided,make,case,selection,future,studies,using,DDSM,reproducible,Furthermore,,may,serve,validation,dataset,CADx,approaches,using,BI-RADS,lexicon.<br>