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Daniel Förnvik

Associate professor

Portrait of Daniel Förnvik. Photo

Our journey toward implementation of digital breast tomosynthesis in breast cancer screening : the Malmö Breast Tomosynthesis Screening Project

Author

  • Anders Tingberg
  • Victor Dahlblom
  • Magnus Dustler
  • Daniel Förnvik
  • Kristin Johnson
  • Pontus Timberg
  • Sophia Zackrisson

Summary, in English

Purpose: The purpose is to describe the Malmö Breast Tomosynthesis Screening Project from the beginning to where we are now, and thoughts for the future. Approach: In two acts, we describe the efforts made by our research group to improve breast cancer screening by introducing digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), all the way from initial studies to a large prospective population-based screening trial and beyond. Results: Our studies have shown that DBT has significant advantages over digital mammography (DM), the current gold standard method for breast cancer screening in Europe, in many aspects except a major one-the increased radiologist workload introduced with DBT compared with DM. It is foreseen that AI could be a viable solution to overcome this problem. Conclusions: We have proved that one-view DBT is a highly efficient screening approach with respect to diagnostic performance.

Department/s

  • LUCC: Lund University Cancer Centre
  • Diagnostic Radiology, (Lund)
  • Radiology Diagnostics, Malmö
  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
  • LTH Profile Area: Photon Science and Technology
  • LU Profile Area: Light and Materials

Publishing year

2025

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Medical Imaging

Volume

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SPIE

Topic

  • Cancer and Oncology

Keywords

  • breast cancer screening
  • digital breast tomosynthesis
  • mammography

Status

Published

Research group

  • Radiology Diagnostics, Malmö
  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2329-4302