Screening healthy women with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) is considered the gold standard for the early detection and successful treatment […]
Posts Tagged ‘Specificity’
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 […]
Celebrating MEP@40
In 1979, the Journal of Biomedical Engineering was launched and fifteen years later, in 1994, the journal was renamed Medical […]
DBT in the News Again
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), commonly known as 3D mammography, has recently been the focus of two research articles from Norway. […]
HHUS versus ABUS
Fifteen years ago, Peter Dempsey wrote a fascinating article on the history of breast ultrasound that appeared in the Journal […]