According to the European Guidelines for quality control in digital
mammography, mammographic image quality is expressed in terms of threshold
contrast visibility using clinical exposure settings. The threshold contrast is defined as
the lowest contrast value for which the objects are visible. The Contrast-Detail
MAMmography (CDMAM) phantom is commonly used for the contrast-detail
analysis, i.e. the detection of small thickness and low contrast objects. An automated
scoring software tool (called CDCOM) was recently developed to evaluate the
CDMAM radiographs. However, the CDCOM program does not determine the
threshold contrast and further analysis is required by the user. This work presents a
MATLAB-based graphical user interface (GUI), called CDMAM_fit_3, that a) reads
and converts the original CDCOM data to a probability matrix, b) applies a
psychometric curve fit to the data, c) predicts the human readout, d) compares the
predicted results with the acceptable and achievable limits (provided by the European
Guidelines) and e) saves the output data in various formats (i.e. txt, csv, xls, xlsx and
xlsm). An executable version of the CDMAM_fit_3 can be used by the user without
any programming and data processing knowledge.