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AI's impact on false-positive mammograms, breast cancer screening performance

AuntMinnie

million mammograms were performed in the U.S. Although mammogram is the most widely used screening modality, a known problem is that 9.5% As is common in Europe, NHS currently uses a two-radiologist reader assessment of breast mammograms, three when there is disagreement. Just over 40.5

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AI Detects More Breast Cancers with Fewer False Positives, Reports Retrospective Denmark Study

Imaging Technology

Results of the study were published today in Radiology , a journal of the Radiological Society of North America ( RSNA ). In the first group, two radiologists read the mammograms of women screened between October 2020 and November 2021 before the implementation of AI. That’s something we’d like to work on in the future.”

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Education Organization, DenseBreast-info.org, Announces Second Annual #WorldDenseBreastDay

Imaging Technology

Building on the success of DBI’s 2022 inaugural event, #WorldDenseBreastDay will reach tens of thousands of patients, health providers and health organizations across the globe, noted the September 12 statement. The 2022 event engaged participants in 37 countries with over 8.6 million posts read.

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Safeguarding the future of radiology with imaging informatics

AuntMinnie

That's why prioritizing cybersecurity investments -- such as advanced network security systems supplemented by regular software updates, audits, and penetration assessments -- and offering staff training on keeping healthcare data and equipment safe can save radiology departments substantial expenses. Shujah Das Gupta.

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Uniting for health equity: Addressing breast cancer disparities

AuntMinnie

5 This incident rate of triple-negative is particularly concerning in light of the fact that Black women are also given fewer digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or 3D, mammograms than other racial and ethnic groups, 6-7 even though DBT is better able to detect aggressive cancers, especially when complemented with mammographic AI software.

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Lunit AI Releases Successful Study Results on Breast Cancer Screening Deployment

Imaging Technology

The announcement was made at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2024 Annual Meeting in Chicago. The original ScreenTrustCAD trial (2021–2022), published in The Lancet Digital Health , was the first prospective interventional study to demonstrate that AI could match or even surpass traditional two-radiologist systems.

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Study on breast density notification narratives draws mixed reaction

AuntMinnie

In 2018, she led a study on automated breast density assessment for informing cancer risk, and in 2022, she and colleagues studied the impact of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) on imaging dense breasts. Kerlikowske has studied breast density on imaging. The study can be found here.

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