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The diagnostic accuracy of dual-view digital mammography, single-view breast tomosynthesis and a dual-view combination of breast tomosynthesis and digital mammography in a free-response observer performance study RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY Svahn, T., Andersson, I., Chakraborty, D., Svensson, S., Ikeda, D., Fornvik, D., Mattsson, S., Tingberg, A., Zackrisson, S. 2010; 139 (1-3): 113-117

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of dual-view digital mammography (DM), single-view breast tomosynthesis (BT) and BT combined with the opposite DM view. Patients with subtle lesions were selected to undergo BT examinations. Two radiologists who are non-participants in the study and have experience in using DM and BT determined the locations and extents of lesions in the images. Five expert mammographers interpreted the cases using the free-response paradigm. The task was to mark and rate clinically reportable findings suspicious for malignancy and clinically relevant benign findings. The marks were scored with reference to the outlined regions into lesion localization or non-lesion localization, and analysed by the jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic method. The analysis yielded statistically significant differences between the combined modality and dual-view DM (p < 0.05). No differences were found between single-view BT and dual-view DM or between single-view BT and the combined modality.

View details for DOI 10.1093/rpd/ncq044

View details for Web of Science ID 000277738200020

View details for PubMedID 20228048

View details for PubMedCentralID PMC2911156