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An observer study comparing spot imaging regions selected by radiologists and a computer for an automated stereo spot mammography technique.

Abstract：

:We are developing an automated stereo spot mammography technique for improved imaging of suspicious dense regions within digital mammograms. The technique entails the acquisition of a full-field digital mammogram, automated detection of a suspicious dense region within that mammogram by a computer aided detection (CAD) program, and acquisition of a stereo pair of images with automated collimation to the suspicious region. The latter stereo spot image is obtained within seconds of the original full-field mammogram, without releasing the compression paddle. The spot image is viewed on a stereo video display. A critical element of this technique is the automated detection of suspicious regions for spot imaging. We performed an observer study to compare the suspicious regions selected by radiologists with those selected by a CAD program developed at the University of Michigan. True regions of interest (TROIs) were separately determined by one of the radiologists who reviewed the original mammograms, biopsy images, and histology results. We compared the radiologist and computer-selected regions of interest (ROIs) to the TROIs. Both the radiologists and the computer were allowed to select up to 3 regions in each of 200 images (mixture of 100 CC and 100 MLO views). We computed overlap indices (the overlap index is defined as the ratio of the area of intersection to the area of interest) to quantify the agreement between the selected regions in each image. The averages of the largest overlap indices per image for the 5 radiologist-to-computer comparisons were directly related to the average number of regions per image traced by the radiologists (about 50% for 1 region/image, 84% for 2 regions/image and 96% for 3 regions/image). The average of the overlap indices with all of the TROIs was 73% for CAD and 76.8% +/- 10.0% for the radiologists. This study indicates that the CAD determined ROIs could potentially be useful for a screening technique that includes stereo spot mammography imaging.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Goodsitt MM,Chan HP,Lydick JT,Gandra CR,Chen NG,Helvie MA,Bailey JE,Roubidoux MA,Paramagul C,Blane CE,Sahiner B,Petrick NA

doi

10.1118/1.1737492

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-06-01 00:00:00

pages

1558-67

issue

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

journal_volume

pub_type

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An observer study comparing spot imaging regions selected by radiologists and a computer for an automated stereo spot mammography technique.