Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1824823 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2011 | 4 Pages |
While asymptomatic screening with mammography has been proven to reduce breast cancer mortality, radiologists miss cancers when reading screening mammograms. Computer-aided detection (CADe) is being developed to help radiologists avoid overlooking a cancer. In this paper, we describe two overarching issues that limit the current development of CADe schemes. These are the inability to optimize a scheme for clinical impact – current methods only optimize for how well the CADe scheme works in the absence of a radiologist – and the lack of a figure of merit that quantifies the performance efficiency of the CADe scheme. Such a figure of merit could be used to determine how much better performance a CADe scheme could obtain, at least in theory, and which component of the several techniques employed in the CADe scheme is the weakest link.