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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2007;297(20):2188.

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Computer-aided detection (CAD) software that analyzes mammogram images and marks suspicious areas for radiologists is designed to improve interpretation of screening mammograms. But it may instead make readings less accurate, according to new research by investigators at the University of California Davis Health System, in Sacramento, and colleagues in the National Cancer Institute–sponsored Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (Fenton JJ et al. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:1399-1409).

Analyzing data from 1998 to 2002 for more than 222 000 women (a total of nearly 430 000 mammograms) from mammography facilities in 3 states, scientists calculated the specificity, sensitivity, and positive predictive value of screening mammography with and without CAD.

Computer-aided detection software does not appear to help radiologists interpret screening mammographies, a new study suggests. (Photo credit: Phanie/www.sciencesource.com)

Women who received screening mammograms at centers using CAD devices were more likely to be told their mammogram was abnormal . . . [Full Text of this Article]