Wednesday, March 14, 2007

CAD Marks Cancers Missed in Double Reading of Screening Mammograms

Newswise

Computer aided detection (CAD) is a potentially useful adjunct to double reading of screening mammograms, according to a recently released study.

The study included 3,683 women who were part of the Oslo I study comparing screen-film mammography and full-field digital mammography. All women had both film and digital mammograms which were then independently interpreted by two radiologists. “Twenty nine cancers were prospectively diagnosed in the initial screening round,” said Per Skaane, MD, of Ullevaal University Hospital in Norway, and lead author of the study.

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