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Overcoming Callback Anxiety: Tips for Staying Calm and Confident

Mammography Educators

Most c allbacks were for additional views and technical repeats for positioning were rare as clinical imaging standards had not been clearly identified. this is actually quite a normal response, even for those of us who are radiographers/mammographers. We don’t just get a callback on our mammogram for micro-calcifications.

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Why understanding breast density matters

The British Institute of Radiology

1) and may go undetected until they are larger and more likely to present with clinical symptoms [4]. Women with dense breasts are BOTH more likely to develop breast cancer and more likely to have that cancer missed on a mammogram [5] Fig. 1 – Cancer on a mammogram of a fatty vs a dense breast What is Dense Breast Tissue?

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AI Performs Comparably to Human Readers of Mammograms

Imaging Technology

milla1cf Tue, 09/05/2023 - 09:00 September 5, 2023 — Using a standardized assessment, researchers in the UK compared the performance of a commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm with human readers of screening mammograms. For each test mammogram, the reader’s score is compared to the ground truth of the AI results.

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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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Volpara Health Breast Density and Mammography Quality Software Highlighted in New Peer-reviewed Research

Imaging Technology

The new model replaces assumptions of a homogeneous breast with a more representative fibroglandular tissue distribution and shifts to the use of percentage volumetric breast density (%VBD) to align with a clinically implemented breast composition metric.

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A brief history of radiology

Radiology Cafe

Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. 3) In the early twentieth century, it was a common goal for investigators to try to find a way to separate the superimposed shadows that were recorded when a complex structure was shown on a radiograph. (3) This is now known as ‘Hand mit Ringen’. (1) after seeing the image. (2) Röntgen, 1895.

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ChatGPT outperforms clinicians in post-negative test disease probability

AuntMinnie

ChatGPT-4 outperformed human clinicians in determining pretest and post-test disease probability after a negative test result involving chest radiographs and mammograms, according to a research letter published December 11 in JAMA Network Open.

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