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Use of computer-aided detection (CAD) tools in screening mammography: a multidisciplinary investigation

¹ Centre for Software Reliability and ² Psychology Department, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB and ³ Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, 1 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Effect of correctness of computer-aided detection (CAD) output on case difficulty (rate of false negative errors). dp, prompted difficulty; d, unprompted difficulty; w, cancer that was wrongly processed by CAD; c, cancer that was correctly processed by CAD. ---, logistic regression curve for wrongly processed cancers; -·-·, logistic regression curve for correctly processed cancers; —, logistic regression curve for all cancers.