Abstract
As digital mammography has largely replaced analogue mammography for screening, we examine the impact of the change on clinical outcomes. Data were obtained for 62,599 women undergoing routine screening mammography between January 2010 and March 2012 during the transition from analogue to digital screening, and on a monthly basis for the two years following complete conversion to digital mammography. With digital mammography, the recall rate increased from 3.58% to 4.69% (p
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Breast Imaging: Lecture Notes on Computer Science 8539 |
Editors | Hiroshi Fujita, T Hara, C Muramatsu |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 56-63 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2014 |
Event | International Workshop on Breast Imaging - Gifu, Japan Duration: 1 Jan 1824 → … |
Conference
Conference | International Workshop on Breast Imaging |
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City | Gifu, Japan |
Period | 1/01/24 → … |
Keywords
- screening
- recall
- cancer detection
- biopsy