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Computer aided detection of masses in mammograms as decision support

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, ¹ Department of Radiology, ² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and ³ National Expert and Training Centre for Breast Cancer Screening, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

View larger version (35K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Mass detection performance of CAD and 10 experienced screening radiologists. Radiologists are represented by different marks, and each point represents an operating point of a radiologist. The solid line shows standalone CAD results while the dashed line shows FROC results obtained by leaving out the zero false positives(FPs), i.e. prompts on non-cancer locations that none of the readers reported.

View larger version (22K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Mean sensitivity for visible masses on prior mammograms, obtained by single reading, independent double reading and independent interpretation with CAD as a function of the false positive(FP) fraction.