Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) was approved by the FDA in 2011 as a screening modality for the early detection of […]
Posts Tagged ‘Sensitivity’
World Dense Breast Day
On the eve of Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes the news that Katie Couric, the former CBS Evening News anchor, was diagnosed with […]
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 […]
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 […]
ABUS and DBT and FFDM
It was five years ago that we published a key article in Diagnostics, an open-access journal, in which we described our dual-modality […]
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; […]
Evaluating DBT after 10 Years
Earlier this year, we described how the digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) pioneers, led by Dr Daniel Kopans, developed a screening tool that […]
Optimising Breast Cancer Screening
Six years ago, we reviewed a paper published in The Lancet by the Japan Strategic Anti-Cancer Randomized Trial (J-START) in which the […]