Posts Tagged ‘Specificity’

A major hurdle facing developing countries when contemplating a breast screening programme, is that current technologies – such as digital […]

It is well known that malignant breast tumours are mechanically stiffer than benign tumours and the surrounding healthy tissues. While […]

Over the past five years we have written various blogs about automated breast ultrasound (ABUS). These have included: the history of ABUS; a […]

An important study emanating from Japan has just been published in the British journal The Lancet. Known as the Japan Strategic Anti-Caner […]

Two journal articles emanating from the United Kingdom have recently been published and both have important implications for the role […]

The University of Copenhagen issued a press release last week in which Rasmus Bro, a professor of chemometrics in the Department of Food Sciences […]

The February edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology was published earlier this week and there was a special focus on women’s imaging, in […]

“The object of screening for disease is to discover those among the apparently well who are in fact suffering from disease. They […]

Over the past 18 months we have explored the applications of ultrasound for the detection of breast cancer. In hand-held ultrasound the quality of […]

Medical imaging, in its purest form, provides a window on the internal anatomy of the human body. If there is a lesion, […]