title: Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for Mammography: Preliminary Results.
abstract: 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
authors.affiliation: Breastopia Namba Hospital, 2-112-1 Maruyama, Miyazaki 880-0052, Japan.
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakahara
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Namba
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukami
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mizutani
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishimura
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authors.lastname: Jinnouchi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nagamachi
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authors.lastname: Ohnishi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Futami
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authors.lastname: Flores
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakahara
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authors.lastname: Tamura