Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for Mammography: Preliminary Results.
PURPOSE: To evaluate the CAD system for screening mammograms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Mammograms of patients with asymptomatic breast cancerwere examined retrospectively. A total of 260 screening mammograms from 65 patients (bilateral cranio-caudal and medio-lateral-oblique views from each) were tested by using the CAD system (ImageChecker M1000 system, R2 Technology, Los Altos, CA, USA). Results: With 0.58 microcalcifications marks/film and 0.20 mass marks/film set as the false positive rate, 100% of microcalcifications cases and 79% of mass cases were detected correctly. Conclusion: The CAD system has the potential to become a second reader. Further developments are expected to improve the accuracy of detection of mass lesions
Nakahara
H
Breastopia Namba Hospital, 2-112-1 Maruyama, Miyazaki 880-0052, Japan.
Namba
K
Fukami
A
Watanabe
R
Mizutani
M
Matsu
T
Nishimura
S
Jinnouchi
S
Nagamachi
S
Ohnishi
T
Futami
S
Flores
II
Nakahara
M
Tamura
S