Computer-Aided Mammography Matches Accuracy of Double Reading

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A finding that has received wide distribution in the last 48 hours, but in case you haven't seen it.

By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: October 01, 2008
Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Earn CME/CE credit
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ABERDEEN, Scotland, Oct. 1 -- Computer-aided detection systems make single-reader mammography reading a reliable alternative to double reading, investigators here concluded.
Action Points

* Explain to interested patients that this study showed that computer-aided interpretation of mammograms by a single reader was as accurate as interpretation by two readers.

* Note that computer-aided detection accounts for a relatively small percentage of mammography interpretations.

In a large, randomized screening trial, single reading with computer-aided interpretation missed just one cancer detected by double reading, Fiona J. Gilbert, of the University of Aberdeen, and colleagues reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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