Sophia Zackrisson
Research group manager, Principal investigator, Professor, MD
THE DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF DUAL-VIEW DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY, SINGLE-VIEW BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS AND A DUAL-VIEW COMBINATION OF BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS AND DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY IN A FREE-RESPONSE OBSERVER PERFORMANCE STUDY.
Author
Summary, in English
The purpose of the present study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of dual-view digital mammography (DM), single-view breast tomosynthesis (BT) and BT combined with the contralateral DM view. Patients with subtle lesions were selected to undergo BT examinations. Two radiologists who are non-participants in the study and have experience in using DM and BT determined the locations and extents of lesions in the images. Five expert mammographers interpreted the cases using the free-response paradigm. The task was to mark and rate clinically reportable findings suspicious for malignancy and clinically relevant benign findings. The marks were scored with reference to the outlined regions into lesion localization or non-lesion localization, and analysed by the jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic method. The analysis yielded statistically significant differences between the combined modality and dual-view DM (p < 0.05). No differences were found between single-view BT and dual-view DM or between single-view BT and the combined modality.
Department/s
- Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
- Radiology Diagnostics, Malmö
Publishing year
2010
Language
English
Pages
113-117
Publication/Series
Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Volume
139
Links
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
Status
Published
Research group
- Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
- Radiology Diagnostics, Malmö
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1742-3406