By Alberto Tagliafico, Nehmat Houssami, Massimo Calabrese
This e-book offers a complete description of the screening and scientific purposes of electronic breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and gives effortless, transparent information on use of the approach. Informative scientific situations are awarded to demonstrate the right way to reap the benefits of DBT in medical perform. the significance of DBT as a diagnostic instrument for either screening and prognosis is expanding quickly. DBT improves upon mammography by way of depicting breast tissue on a video clip made from cross‐sectional photographs reconstructed in correspondence with their mammographic planes of acquisition. DBT leads to markedly diminished summation of overlapping breast tissue and gives the capability to enhance mammographic breast melanoma surveillance and prognosis. This e-book could be an exceptional sensible educating consultant for rookies and an invaluable reference for more matured radiologists.
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Tagliafico Fig. 2 Trend in the article published on the topic “breast density” which reflects an almost constant and continuous increase of the number of the published articles given as a percentage. At the time of the present chapter, the relative disadvantages of Cumulus were the absence of capability to analyze 3D images, the absence of a fully automated method to assess breast density, and the influence of breast density percentage results due to variability in breast thickness, variability in breast compression, and variability in X-ray exposure.
2007; Diorio et al. 2004). For this reason, it is important to develop a software for quantitative assessment of breast density on standard mammograms, digital mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis, and magnetic resonance imaging. The topic related to breast density and tomosynthesis is relatively new compared to the assessment of breast density on mammography, reflecting the relative novelty of tomosynthesis usage. Indeed, a search for the keywords “breast density and breast cancer” on 18 January 2014 produced 6758 articles, whereas the same search with the keywords “breast density and tomosynthesis” produced only 27 articles.
At the time of the present chapter, the relative disadvantages of Cumulus were the absence of capability to analyze 3D images, the absence of a fully automated method to assess breast density, and the influence of breast density percentage results due to variability in breast thickness, variability in breast compression, and variability in X-ray exposure. A notable advantage of the MedDensity software is that it was the first to have an automatic interface to assess also 3D images (of digital breast tomosynthesis) and to assess breast density on magnetic resonance imaging.