Contralateral asymmetry for breast cancer detection: A CADx approach

In this study, 152 subjects from two independent databases, one with analog- and one with digital mammograms, were used to validate the methodology. Areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.738 and 0.767, and diagnostic odds ratios of 23.10 and 9.00 were achieved, respectively. In addition, the proposed method has the potential to rank subjects by their probability of having breast cancer, aiding in the re-scheduling of the radiologists’ image queue, an issue of utmost importance in developing countries.
Source: Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering - Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research