Anders Tingberg
Associate professor
BIRADS classification in breast tomosynthesis compared to mammography and ultrasonography
Author
Summary, in English
This paper presents the Malmo Breast tomosynthesis project The tomosynthesis equipment is described as well as the patient selection and image acquisition. Special fucus is given to one of the studies of the project, which is a comparison of the diagnostic performance between breast tomosynthesis (BT), digital mammography (DM) and ultrasonography (US): tumor classification according to the BIRADS system was performed on 40 cancers imaged with DM, US and BT. The patients were selected on the basis of subtle signs of breast cancer on DM or negative findings on the basis of subtle signs of breast cancer on DM or negative findings on DM but suspicious lesions on US. The BIRADS scores based on the BT images were significantly higher than 1-view DM and 2-view DM, and equal 2-view DM, and equal to 2-view plus US. The results suggest that BT may be a suitable technique for breast cancer screening.
Department/s
- Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
- Department of Translational Medicine
Publishing year
2008
Language
English
Pages
67-73
Publication/Series
Digital Mammography, Proceedings
Volume
5116
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
Keywords
- BIRADS
- classification
- ultrasonography
- breast tomosynthesis
- mammography
Conference name
9th International Workshop on Digital Mammography
Conference date
2008-07-20 - 2008-07-23
Conference place
Tucson, AZ, United States
Status
Published
Research group
- Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0302-9743
- ISSN: 1611-3349
- ISBN: 978-3-540-70537-6