Mammography interpretation

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Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R, Abraham L, et al (2007) Radiologist characteristics associated with interpretive performance of diagnostic mammography. J Natl Cancer Inst 99 1854-1863... 

Another factor contributing to reader variability in mammography is sheer volume of reading (Be a m et al. 2003 Leung et al. 2007 Miglioretti et al. 2007). For example in one study (Smith-Bindman et al. 2005), physicians who interpreted a high annual... 

Mello-Thoms C (2006b) The problem of image interpretation in mammography effects of lesion conspicuity on the visual search strategy of radiologists. Br J Radiol 79 S111-S116... 

Table 9.2. Major reasons given for the difference in interpretation for the 24 cancers detected only on one modality, either screen-fihn mammography or digital mammography, in the Colorado-Massachusetts trial (Lewin et al. 2002)...

Fig. 10.1. Flow chart shows decision tree for double reading in mammography screening. True positive interpretations may include all positive scores for cancers at baseline reading (1), cancers diagnosed at assessment only (2), or also including cancers with true positive scores dismissed at consensus (arbitration) meeting and presenting as interval or subsequent round cancers (3)...

Table 10.1. Studies comparing screen-film mammography (SFM) and fiill-field digital mammography (FFDM) in breast cancer screening study period, year presented, study design, age group of study population, and method of reading (interpretation)...

One of the six conventional mammography units in the center was replaced by one Lorad Selenia FFDM (Hologic, Danbury, CT, USA). Six radiologists were involved in the image interpretation. The readers used a dedicated mammography workstation, and all the mammograms were double read. Computer-aided detection (CAD) was used for all FFDM examinations, but not for the SFM images. 

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