Twenty years ago, I published a commentary entitled “The professor as entrepreneur” in which I reflected on my decade as an academic […]
Posts Tagged ‘Sensitivity’
Battle of the Algorithms
Screening healthy women with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) is considered the gold standard for the early detection and successful treatment […]
Panning for Gold
The title for today’s blog has been adapted from an editorial highlighting a paper that appeared this week in Science Translational Medicine, […]
Breast Ultrasound and AI
In some countries, hand-held ultrasound (HHUS) examinations are widely used to screen healthy women for breast cancer because this modality […]
Closer to the Holy Grail
Seven years ago, we reviewed the progress in developing a blood test for the early detection of breast cancer. Thought to be […]
ABUS and AI: Complementary Acronyms
As we have previously noted, ABUS – automated breast ultrasound – is an acronym to remember when considering imaging modalities for […]
Potential of AI to Detect Breast Cancer
On 1 January 2020, Nature published a multi-author paper that demonstrated the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect breast […]
The Evidence Continues to Build
Scientists led by Dr Mengmeng Jia from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing presented a noteworthy paper at the RSNA […]
DBT + AI = Progress
Despite a recent report calling into question the benefits of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) – sometimes called 3D mammography – as a […]
Ultrasound Screening after FFDM and DBT
In the past decade, 38 states in the USA have enacted legislation requiring radiologists to notify a woman if, after undergoing a […]