BACKGROUND The DMIST (Digital Mammography Imaging Screening Trial) reported improved breast cancer detection with digital mammography compared with film mammography in selected population subgroups, but it did not assess the economic value of digital relative to film mammography screening. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of digital mammography screening for breast cancer. DESIG...

Although the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) passed when analog mammography and film processors were used across the United States, now most health care facilities have full-field digital mammography. This article reviews MQSA requirements including qualifications for personnel, the clinical image evaluation process, and components of a quality control program. In light of technologica...

OBJECTIVE We show with both a clinical case and measurements using the American College of Radiology mammography phantom that some digital mammography acquisition and image display combinations lead to both marked over- and underestimation of lesion sizes on geometrically magnified images. CONCLUSION The results of this study indicate that the accuracy of lesion size measurements in all magni...

Screen-film image receptors have been the standard detector used in conventional mammography. New developments in detector technology and computers are altering the landscape of mammography imaging. Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) offers the promise of revolutionizing the practice of mammography through its superior dose and contrast performance. Advanced applications made possible throug...

background: mammography is the primary imaging technique for detection and diagnosis of breast cancer; however, the contrast of a mammogram image is often poor, especially for dense and glandular tissues. in these cases the radiologist may miss some diagnostically important microcalcifications. in order to improve diagnosis of cancer correctly, image enhancement technology is often used to enha...

Objective: The aim of this study is to estimate the false-positive rate of computer-aided detection (CAD) with fullfield digital mammography (FFDM) in the detection of breast cancer. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in the period from February, 2013 until September, 2014. It included 659 patients who presented to the radiology department for mammography. Full-field digital mammog...

Low sensitivity of film-screen mammography in women aged 40 to 49 years paved the way for digital mammography (1), which improves screening sensitivity relative to film-screen mammog-raphy in women with dense breasts, pre-and perimenopausal women, and those aged 40 to 49 years (2,3). Digital mammog-raphy now accounts for 94% of mammography units in the U.S. (4). New evidence reported in this is...

The Digital Mammography Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST), conducted under the auspices of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN), is a clinical trial designed to compare the accuracy of digital versus screen-film mammography in a screening population [E. Pisano et al., ACRIN 6652-Digital vs. Screen-Film Mammography, ACRIN (2001)]. Part I of this work described the Quality Cont...

Breast imaging in the UK is currently undergoing a major change, with the widespread implementation of full-field digital mammography (FFDM) equipment. This article looks at some of the advanced imaging techniques that have become possible following the development of FFDM units. These techniques may prove to be useful additions to standard mammography for some groups of women.