Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in mammography: experience of use of the ScreenPoint Medical Transpara system in 310 Japanese women.

Journal: Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan)
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: To compare the breast cancer detection performance in digital mammograms of a panel of three unaided human readers (HR) versus a stand-alone artificial intelligence (AI)-based Transpara system in a population of Japanese women.

Authors

  • Michiro Sasaki
    Department of Radiology, Sagara Perth Avenue Clinic, 26-13 Shinyashiki-cho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, 892-0838, Japan. chacha622@sagara.or.jp.
  • Mitsuhiro Tozaki
    Department of Radiology, Sagara Hospital, 3-31 Matsubara-cho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, 892-0833, Japan.
  • Alejandro Rodríguez-Ruiz
    From the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Geert Grooteplein 10, 6525 GA, Post 766, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (A.R.R., I.S., R.M.M.); Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga (E.K.); ScreenPoint Medical BV, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (J.J.M.); Lynn Women's Health & Wellness Institute, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton, Fla (K.S.); Referenzzentrum Mammographie Munich, Brustdiagnostik München and FFB, Munich, Germany (S.H.H.); and Dutch Expert Centre for Screening, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (I.S.).
  • Daisuke Yotsumoto
    Department of Breast Surgery, Sagara Hospital, 3-31Mtsubara-cho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, 892-0833, Japan.
  • Yumi Ichiki
    Image Inspection Department, Sagara Perth Avenue Clinic, 26-13 Shinyashiki-cho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, 892-0838, Japan.
  • Aiko Terawaki
    Image Inspection Department, Sagara Perth Avenue Clinic, 26-13 Shinyashiki-cho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, 892-0838, Japan.
  • Shunichi Oosako
    Image Inspection Department, Sagara Perth Avenue Clinic, 26-13 Shinyashiki-cho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, 892-0838, Japan.
  • Yasuaki Sagara
    Department of Breast Surgery, Sagara Hospital, 3-31Mtsubara-cho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, 892-0833, Japan.
  • Yoshiaki Sagara
    Department of Radiology, Sagara Hospital Affiliated Breast Center, 3-28 Tenokuchi-cho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, 892-0845, Japan.