Correlation Between Screening Mammography Interpretive Performance on a Test Set and Performance in Clinical Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale and objectives

Evidence is inconsistent about whether radiologists' interpretive performance on a screening mammography test set reflects their performance in clinical practice. This study aimed to estimate the correlation between test set and clinical performance and determine if the correlation is influenced by cancer prevalence or lesion difficulty in the test set.

Materials and methods

This institutional review board-approved study randomized 83 radiologists from six Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium registries to assess one of four test sets of 109 screening mammograms each; 48 radiologists completed a fifth test set of 110 mammograms 2 years later. Test sets differed in number of cancer cases and difficulty of lesion detection. Test set sensitivity and sp

SUBMITTER: Miglioretti DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5591765 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature