Breast Imaging: Page 27

German group uses PET tracer to pinpoint breast cancer

By Will Morton

Investigators from Muenster, Germany, have found an experimental radiotracer based on gallium-68 can help diagnose primary and metastatic tumors on PET/MRI scans in women with advanced breast cancer -- even those smaller than 1 cm.

October 17, 2021

iCAD unveils AI software for mammography

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

iCAD is promoting its latest generation of artificial intelligence (AI) products at the Journées Francophones de Radiologie (JFR) congress in Paris, which opened on 8 October.

October 7, 2021

Dutch team uses AI to enhance value of MRI in dense breasts

By Amerigo Allegretto

Researchers from Utrecht in the Netherlands have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that dismissed nearly 40% of breast MRI scans without lesions while not missing any cancers in women with dense breasts. It offers hope as a triage tool, they say.

October 6, 2021

Dutch team assesses value of breast MRI in 4-year screening intervals

By Amerigo Allegretto

A research group from the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam has reported that MRI screening every four years is about 12% more cost-effective than mammography every two years for women with dense breasts.

September 30, 2021

Breast cancer screening prepares to open again in NSW

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The Australian breast cancer screening program, New South Wales (NSW) BreastScreen, is getting set to reopen, according to a report posted on 28 September by 7News.com.

September 28, 2021

Do inadvertent breast scans pose risk for pregnant women?

By Amerigo Allegretto

Portuguese researchers have found that digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis inadvertently performed during pregnancy do not pose a significant radiation risk for pregnant women or their fetuses.

September 28, 2021

Novel x-ray method promises dramatic cut in radiation dose

By Amerigo Allegretto

Contrast-enhanced digital mammography with monochromatic x-rays provides a simpler and more effective imaging technique at substantially lower radiation dose, two global researchers wrote in the European Journal of Radiology on 18 September.

September 22, 2021

Tabár and Duffy to receive Margulis award at RSNA 2021

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The RSNA organizing committee has announced that Dr. László Tabár and Prof. Stephen W. Duffy will receive the 2021 Alexander R. Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence at November's annual meeting in Chicago.

September 19, 2021

Should breast radiologists undergo self-assessment test?

By Philip Ward

A national breast cancer screening self-evaluation test implemented in Italy is showing signs of success, and the developers are convinced readers should undergo such a test. However, some experts warn the Italian initiative needs to be improved.

September 12, 2021

Experts give top tips on how to succeed in breast imaging

What personal qualities do you need to achieve success in breast imaging? How should you approach artificial intelligence? How can you conduct better research? What can be said about the future? Radiologists from across Europe share their advice.

September 8, 2021

Novel analysis highlights shortcomings of breast AI

By Amerigo Allegretto

U.K. researchers have found that evidence is insufficient on the accuracy or clinical effect of introducing artificial intelligence (AI) to examine mammograms on the screening pathway. They published their findings on 1 September in the BMJ.

September 7, 2021

AI detects cancer on mammography but is inferior to double reading

By Amerigo Allegretto

Investigators from Lund University in Sweden have found artificial intelligence (AI) software can detect cancers on digital mammography that had originally been found on digital breast tomosynthesis, but AI falls short of double reading by radiologists.

September 6, 2021

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