Each Friday morning for the past eleven years I have woken up, climbed out of bed, and had in mind […]
Posts Tagged ‘Diagnosis’
Covid, Ultrasound and AI
Eighteen months ago, when the Covid-19 vaccines were being rolled out in the USA and UK, we reviewed a paper that had […]
Reducing Breast Cancer Deaths in Low-Income Countries
Each year, 2.3 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer, while there are 685,000 deaths. Two-thirds of these deaths occur in middle- and […]
A Tutorial on Breast Masses
Yesterday saw the online publication in JAMA Network of a tutorial entitled “Breast masses in biological females.” Published by the […]
Breast Compression Predicts Interval Cancer
After a two-year hiatus because of the Covid pandemic, the 16th International Workshop on Breast Imaging took place in Leuven, Belgium last week. […]
AI for Breast Ultrasound
On 23 December 2021, the board of directors of RSNA announced that Dr Linda Moy (seen right) would become editor of their […]
Learning from Past Mistakes
Almost 25 years ago, in 1998, the FDA approved computer-aided detection (CAD) tools as an adjunct to mammography. This was before the […]
Angels in the Crowd
When an entrepreneur has a novel idea for a medical device, her biggest challenge will be to secure the necessary […]
Understanding Breast Density
The Merriam-Webster dictionary provides three essential meanings for the word “density”: having parts that are close together; being difficult to see through; […]
53 Fridays in 2021
We know there are 52 weeks in a year, so how is it possible that today, 31 December 2021, is […]