The Diagnostic Imaging mammography modality focus page provides information, videos, podcasts, and the latest news about industry product developments, trial results, screening guidelines, and protocol guidance that touch on the use of mammography, including 2D digital mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis, and breast ultrasound.
September 3rd 2025
While the AI software offered nearly equivalent negative predictive value (NPV) to radiologist interpretation of digital mammograms and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) images, researchers noted that AI had significantly higher recall rates and false-positive results in patients with intermediate risk.
Breast CT finally enters clinical testing at UC Davis
October 5th 2005Breast CT, on the drawing board for decades, is now in phase II clinical testing at the University of California, Davis. Begun in early summer, the second phase of the Breast CT Project will enroll 190 patients over the next few years. As of September, researchers had scanned 17 patients who had been identified through mammography as having BI-RADS 4 or 5 lesions. Fifteen lesions have been confirmed as cancer.
Study validates CAD’s impact in early detection of invasive breast cancer
September 27th 2005A two-year prospective study validates the impact of computer-aided detection in identifying invasive breast cancer at an ever earlier stage. CAD increased the cancer detection rate by 16.1% during the study, published in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
SSPs take on larger role in digital mammography
September 22nd 2005Digital mammography represents the last frontier for diagnostic imaging departments and imaging centers that have implemented PACS. For some imaging centers, particularly those specializing in breast imaging, digital mammography provides the catalyst for converting to digital image management. Many facilities that do not have the preparation or the staff to accomplish this transition seek a ready-made solution.
I3Archive provides data and image distribution
September 22nd 2005I3Archive specializes in cross-enterprise distribution and access of health images and data, using distributed archiving supercomputer technology. Its National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) is a distributed database system currently containing approximately 500,000 digital mammography (and related) DICOM images, associated demographic and clinical data, and reports. The product's name was changed from National Digital Mammography Archive in May to reflect its inclusion of breast MRI and breast ultrasound images.
Digital mammography finds more cancers than film in women under 50
September 16th 2005Digital mammography is more accurate than film in detecting cancer in women under age 50, those who have dense breasts, and in pre- and perimenopasual women, according to the long-awaited results from the Digital Mammography Screening Trial (DMIST).
MQSA Historic success becomes regulatory threat
September 1st 2005Thirteen years after its passage by Congress, the Mammography Quality Standards Act remains a sore subject for radiologists. While breast imagers unanimously agree that the MQSA has vastly improved mammography quality, they give the rule low marks for its cost and the burdensome details of compliance.
Stricter standards threaten access to mammography practice
September 1st 2005No doubt, the Mammography Quality Standards Act has improved the quality of breast imaging. As this month's cover story clearly establishes, long-time mammographers have seen a decided improvement in clinical practice since the MQSA was adopted in 1992.
U.K. study strengthens case in support of breast MR screening
August 18th 2005A U.K. multicenter study has shown that a combination of MRI and mammography offers the best way of detecting breast cancer in women with a high genetic risk of the disease. The results add more weight to arguments for routine breast MRI for women carrying BRCA mutations and possibly for omitting mammography altogether.
China chooses CR for breast screening
August 15th 2005A planned population-based breast screening program in China looks likely to benefit vendors of computed radiography mammography solutions. Organizers of an ambitious project to screen one million Chinese women for breast disease are assessing available technologies with a view to increasing orders.
Shaping the future with healthcare IT
August 15th 2005Statistics can be remarkable things. They can identify the benefit of current actions or point to new paths for the future. The statistics released last week by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York exemplify the former. Statistics that could be garnered from the use of healthcare IT exemplify the latter.
Clinicians and vendors build bridges in support of digital mammography
August 1st 2005I saw the article that you coauthored on the digital breast imaging forum at SCAR ("Breast imagers come out swinging against digital mammography vendors," diagnosticimaging.com/scar2005/, June 7, 2005. An expanded version appears in the SCAR Conference Reporter, this issue, page 54). I am very happy that you were there and interested in digital mammography. Also, I am pleased that you described the struggles we are having on the clinical side so accurately.
Breast imagers protest digital discrepancies
August 1st 2005In a delicate dance between open discussion and sheer frustration, all players in the digital mammography arena, from users to vendors, wrangled over evolving technology issues during a marathon forum at the SCAR meeting. Among the points of contention was the speed at which the technology is achieving consistent image quality standards.
Study questions gains in ‘real world’ breast cancer screening
July 20th 2005Performing community-based screening for breast cancer may have no clear effect on reducing the rate of fatalities attributed to the disease, according to a study published in the July 20 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Screening remains ultimate hurdle for breast CAD
June 24th 2005Despite the increasing availability of commercial computer-assisted detection packages for breast screening, the technology remains unproven in the screening setting, according to a leading U.K. breast radiologist. Prof. Fiona Gilbert, a professor of radiology at the University of Aberdeen, is calling for a Europe-wide randomized control trial to prove the case for CAD as a second reader.
Report from AIUM: Ultrasound BI-RADS needs fine-tuning
June 24th 2005A significant number of breast cancers missed by mammography in the last decade may have been misclassified as benign lesions by ultrasound in the first place, according to a study presented at the 2005 American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine meeting.
CAD holds key to future of CT colonography
June 24th 2005Few radiologists would disagree that computer-assisted detection in the colon has a long way to go before it is ready for routine clinical implementation. But once the remaining technical challenges have been overcome, advocates for CT colonography screening will have a far stronger case, speakers said Friday.
Screening remains ultimate hurdle for breast CAD
June 23rd 2005Despite the increasing availability of commercial computer-assisted detection packages for breast screening, the technology remains unproven in the screening setting, according to a leading U.K. breast radiologist. Prof. Fiona Gilbert, a professor of radiology at the University of Aberdeen, is calling for a Europe-wide randomized control trial to prove the case for CAD as a second reader
Copenhagen study confirms mammography screening benefit
June 16th 2005The true value of widespread mammography screening is a contentious issue, with claims for its success difficult to disentangle from coexisting factors. Now, research from Denmark has produced the strongest evidence to date that screening produces significant re-ductions in breast cancer mortality.