Screening mammography: test set data can reasonably describe actual clinical reporting.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To establish the extent to which test set reading can represent actual clinical reporting in screening mammography.

Materials and methods

Institutional ethics approval was granted, and informed consent was obtained from each participating screen reader. The need for informed consent with respect to the use of patient materials was waived. Two hundred mammographic examinations were selected from examinations reported by 10 individual expert screen readers, resulting in 10 reader-specific test sets. Data generated from actual clinical reports were compared with three test set conditions: clinical test set reading with prior images, laboratory test set reading with prior images, and laboratory test set reading without prior images. A further set of five expert screen re

SUBMITTER: Soh BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3689446 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature