Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Breast Cancer Screening Results 5 Years after Introduction of Digital Mammography in a Population-based Screening Program

Breast Cancer Screening Results 5 Years after Introduction of Digital Mammography in a Population-based Screening Program
Nico Karssemeijer, Adriana M. Bluekens, David Beijerinck, Jan J. Deurenberg, Matthijs Beekman, Roelant Visser, Ruben van Engen, Annemieke Bartels-Kortland, and Mireille J. Broeders
Radiology 2009;253 353-358

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With the FFDM-CAD combination, detection performance is at least as good as that with SFM. The detection of ductal carcinoma in situ and microcalcification clusters improved with FFDM using CAD, while the recall rate increased.

Results indicate that with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) using computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) and double reading, the detection is as good as that with screen-film mammography, and detection of clustered microcalcifications and ductal carcinoma in situ is improved with FFDM using CAD

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