title: Diagnostic digital mammography in Japan: issues to consider.
abstract: Digital mammography has been proposed as an alternative to screen-film mammography. Digital mammography has many technical advantages over film mammography, including image-enhancement capability, faster image acquisition, and better storage and transmission for archiving. However, its full potential can only be achieved through soft-copy reading. Soft-copy reading in digital mammography is still a relatively new technique, and has several issues which must still be resolved. It is necessary to optimize display formats and software as soon as possible to standardize soft-copy reading in digital mammography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Breast Imaging, Breast Intervention in Breast Center, Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Naga-izumi, Shizuoka, Japan. t.uematsu@scchr.jp
authors.forename: Takayoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uematsu
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods*; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D014963:X-Ray Intensifying Screens