Etta Pisano

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Affiliation: University of North Carolina
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Interpretation of digital mammograms: comparison of speed and accuracy of soft-copy versus printed-film display
    Etta D Pisano
    Dept of Radiology, Univ of North Carolina School of Med, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiology 223:483-8. 2002
  2. ncbi Cancer cases from ACRIN digital mammographic imaging screening trial: radiologist analysis with use of a logistic regression model
    Etta D Pisano
    Dept of Radiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4030 Bondurant Hall, Campus Box 7000, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7515, USA
    Radiology 252:348-57. 2009
  3. ncbi Issues to consider in converting to digital mammography
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, CB 7000, Room 4030 Bondurant Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiol Clin North Am 45:813-30, vi. 2007
  4. ncbi Diagnostic accuracy of digital versus film mammography: exploratory analysis of selected population subgroups in DMIST
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiology 246:376-83. 2008
  5. ncbi Diagnostic performance of digital versus film mammography for breast-cancer screening
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
    N Engl J Med 353:1773-83. 2005
  6. ncbi American College of Radiology Imaging Network digital mammographic imaging screening trial: objectives and methodology
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Radiology 236:404-12. 2005
  7. ncbi Radiologists' preferences for digital mammographic display. The International Digital Mammography Development Group
    E D Pisano
    Dept of Radiology, University of North Carolina CB7510, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiology 216:820-30. 2000
  8. ncbi Issues in breast cancer screening
    Etta Pisano
    University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, 7510 Room 503, Old Infirmary Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
    Technol Cancer Res Treat 4:5-9. 2005
  9. ncbi Added cancer yield of MRI in screening the contralateral breast of women recently diagnosed with breast cancer: results from the International Breast Magnetic Resonance Consortium (IBMC) trial
    Constance D Lehman
    Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
    J Surg Oncol 92:9-15; discussion 15-6. 2005
  10. ncbi Radiologist evaluation of an X-ray tube-based diffraction-enhanced imaging prototype using full-thickness breast specimens
    Laura Faulconer
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7000, 4030 Bondurant Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Acad Radiol 16:1329-37. 2009

Detail Information

Publications73

  1. ncbi Interpretation of digital mammograms: comparison of speed and accuracy of soft-copy versus printed-film display
    Etta D Pisano
    Dept of Radiology, Univ of North Carolina School of Med, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiology 223:483-8. 2002
    ..To compare the speed and accuracy of the interpretations of digital mammograms by radiologists by using printed-film versus soft-copy display...
  2. ncbi Cancer cases from ACRIN digital mammographic imaging screening trial: radiologist analysis with use of a logistic regression model
    Etta D Pisano
    Dept of Radiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4030 Bondurant Hall, Campus Box 7000, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7515, USA
    Radiology 252:348-57. 2009
    ..To determine which factors contributed to the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST) cancer detection results...
  3. ncbi Issues to consider in converting to digital mammography
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, CB 7000, Room 4030 Bondurant Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiol Clin North Am 45:813-30, vi. 2007
    ..These issues include technical matters regarding image display, storage, and retrieval as well as clinical and ergonomic considerations...
  4. ncbi Diagnostic accuracy of digital versus film mammography: exploratory analysis of selected population subgroups in DMIST
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiology 246:376-83. 2008
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  5. ncbi Diagnostic performance of digital versus film mammography for breast-cancer screening
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
    N Engl J Med 353:1773-83. 2005
    ..Film mammography has limited sensitivity for the detection of breast cancer in women with radiographically dense breasts. We assessed whether the use of digital mammography would avoid some of these limitations...
  6. ncbi American College of Radiology Imaging Network digital mammographic imaging screening trial: objectives and methodology
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Radiology 236:404-12. 2005
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  7. ncbi Radiologists' preferences for digital mammographic display. The International Digital Mammography Development Group
    E D Pisano
    Dept of Radiology, University of North Carolina CB7510, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiology 216:820-30. 2000
    ..To determine the preferences of radiologists among eight different image processing algorithms applied to digital mammograms obtained for screening and diagnostic imaging tasks...
  8. ncbi Issues in breast cancer screening
    Etta Pisano
    University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, 7510 Room 503, Old Infirmary Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
    Technol Cancer Res Treat 4:5-9. 2005
    ..While mammography is not perfect, it has set a high threshold that other modalities must reach before they will be widely utilized for screening or diagnosis...
  9. ncbi Added cancer yield of MRI in screening the contralateral breast of women recently diagnosed with breast cancer: results from the International Breast Magnetic Resonance Consortium (IBMC) trial
    Constance D Lehman
    Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
    J Surg Oncol 92:9-15; discussion 15-6. 2005
    ..To estimate the added cancer yield of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) over mammography in the contralateral breast of patients with a recent diagnosis of breast cancer...
  10. ncbi Radiologist evaluation of an X-ray tube-based diffraction-enhanced imaging prototype using full-thickness breast specimens
    Laura Faulconer
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7000, 4030 Bondurant Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Acad Radiol 16:1329-37. 2009
    ..However, a lingering drawback to the clinical translation of DEI has been the requirement for synchrotron radiation...
  11. ncbi Consensus review: A method of assessment of calcifications that appropriately undergo a six-month follow-up
    Cherie M Kuzmiak
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Acad Radiol 13:621-9. 2006
    ..The purpose of this study is to determine if consensus characterization of calcifications by two breast imaging experts using standardized criteria can establish that follow-up is a safe option...
  12. ncbi Screening women at high risk for breast cancer with mammography and magnetic resonance imaging
    Constance D Lehman
    Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, Washington 98109 1023, USA
    Cancer 103:1898-905. 2005
    ..The authors compared the performance of screening mammography versus magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in women at genetically high risk for breast cancer...
  13. ncbi Augmented reality guidance for needle biopsies: an initial randomized, controlled trial in phantoms
    Michael Rosenthal
    Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 3175, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3175, USA
    Med Image Anal 6:313-20. 2002
    ..48 mm for control versus 1.62 mm for augmented reality, p<0.02). This result suggests that AR systems can offer improved accuracy over traditional biopsy guidance methods...
  14. ncbi Effect of display luminance on the feature detection rates of masses in mammograms
    B M Hemminger
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina 27599 7515, USA
    Med Phys 26:2266-72. 1999
    ..However, the performance of the lower luminance display systems (less than 300 cd/m2), may be reduced due to the high levels of ambient light found in many reading environments...
  15. ncbi Improving the detection of simulated masses in mammograms through two different image-processing techniques
    B M Hemminger
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7510, USA
    Acad Radiol 8:845-55. 2001
    ..CONCLUSION: HIW should be tested in clinical images to determine whether the detection of masses by radiologists can be improved. CLAHE processing will probably not improve the detection of masses on clinical mammograms...
  16. ncbi What every surgical oncologist should know about digital mammography
    E D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Semin Surg Oncol 20:181-6. 2001
    ..Future technological developments, including improvements in softcopy display, image processing, computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CADD), tomosynthesis, and digital subtraction mammography (DSM), are briefly discussed...
  17. ncbi Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions in a multicenter clinical trial: results from the radiologic diagnostic oncology group V
    E D Pisano
    Dept of Radiology, Univ of North Carolina, 101 Manning Dr, 515 Old Infirmary, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Radiology 219:785-92. 2001
    ..To determine the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonographically (US) and stereotactically guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in the diagnosis of nonpalpable breast lesions...
  18. ncbi Image processing algorithms for digital mammography: a pictorial essay
    E D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 4226, USA
    Radiographics 20:1479-91. 2000
    ..Trex processing allows visualization of both lesion detail and breast edge information but reduces image contrast...
  19. ncbi Human breast cancer specimens: diffraction-enhanced imaging with histologic correlation--improved conspicuity of lesion detail compared with digital radiography
    E D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599 7510, USA
    Radiology 214:895-901. 2000
    ..Six of the seven cases (86%) showed enhanced visibility of surface spiculation that correlated with histopathologic information, including extension of tumor into surrounding tissue...
  20. ncbi Cortisol levels and responses to mammography screening in breast cancer survivors: a pilot study
    Laura S Porter
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Psychosom Med 65:842-8. 2003
    ..The purpose of this study was to compare baseline levels of salivary cortisol, diurnal cortisol slopes, and cortisol reactivity to a mammogram in breast cancer survivors and women without a history of cancer...
  21. ncbi Rosai-Dorfman disease presenting as a suspicious breast mass
    Cherie M Kuzmiak
    University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 180:1740-2. 2003
  22. ncbi Factors affecting phantom scores at annual mammography facility inspections by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    E D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, and the UNC-Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7510, USA
    Acad Radiol 8:864-70. 2001
    ..Radiologists should also consider increasing phantom and clinical image optical density to allow for improved phantom testing outcomes...
  23. ncbi Perspective on digital mammography
    E D Pisano
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Semin Roentgenol 36:195-200. 2001
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  24. ncbi Digital mammography image quality: image display
    Eliot Siegel
    University of Maryland, Department of Radiology, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Am Coll Radiol 3:615-27. 2006
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  25. ncbi Storage, transmission, and retrieval of digital mammography, including recommendations on image compression
    David Avrin
    University of Utah, Department of Radiology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    J Am Coll Radiol 3:609-14. 2006
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  26. ncbi Image quality in digital mammography: image acquisition
    Mark B Williams
    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908 1339, USA
    J Am Coll Radiol 3:589-608. 2006
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  27. ncbi Should FDG PET be used to decide whether a patient with an abnormal mammogram or breast finding at physical examination should undergo biopsy?
    David J Samson
    Technology Evaluation Center, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Washington, DC 20005, USA
    Acad Radiol 9:773-83. 2002
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  28. ncbi MRI evaluation of the contralateral breast in women with recently diagnosed breast cancer
    Constance D Lehman
    University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    N Engl J Med 356:1295-303. 2007
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  29. ncbi Digital mammography: what next?
    Etta D Pisano
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Radiology, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    J Am Coll Radiol 3:583-5. 2006
  30. ncbi Choosing a specialty in medicine: female medical students and radiology
    Julia R Fielding
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 101 Manning Dr, Campus Box 7510, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 188:897-900. 2007
    ..The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are identifiable factors that dissuade female medical students from entering the field of radiology...
  31. ncbi The positive predictive value for diagnosis of breast cancer full-field digital mammography versus film-screen mammography in the diagnostic mammographic population
    Bo Kyoung Seo
    Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Korea University School of Medicine, Ansan, Korea
    Acad Radiol 13:1229-35. 2006
    ..005). CONCLUSION: There is no improvement in PPV for the diagnosis of breast cancer with full-field digital mammography compared with film-screen mammography in a large diagnostic population...
  32. ncbi Correlation of HER-2/neu overexpression with mammography and age distribution in primary breast carcinomas
    Bo Kyoung Seo
    Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Korea University, 516 Kozan 1 dong, Danwon gu, Ansan, Kyungki Do 425 707, Korea
    Acad Radiol 13:1211-8. 2006
    ..The objective of this study was to determine the mammographic and patient characteristics (age) that correlate with HER-2/neu overexpression in primary breast carcinoma...
  33. ncbi Quality control for digital mammography: part II. Recommendations from the ACRIN DMIST trial
    Martin J Yaffe
    Imaging Research Program, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada
    Med Phys 33:737-52. 2006
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  34. ncbi Quality control for digital mammography in the ACRIN DMIST trial: part I
    Aili K Bloomquist
    Imaging Research Program, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada
    Med Phys 33:719-36. 2006
    ..Because of the relatively short duration of this study further, investigation of the long-term failure characteristics of these systems is advisable...
  35. ncbi Comparison of three methods to increase knowledge about breast cancer and breast cancer screening in screening mammography patients
    Dag Pavic
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7510, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Acad Radiol 14:553-60. 2007
    ..The specific aim of the study was to determine which of several cost-effective interventions is best able to improve the breast cancer knowledge of women who present for screening mammography...
  36. ncbi Two-modality mammography may confer an advantage over either full-field digital mammography or screen-film mammography
    Deborah H Glueck
    Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA
    Acad Radiol 14:670-6. 2007
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  37. ncbi Research for North Carolina: The University Cancer Research Fund
    Michael S O'Malley
    UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
    N C Med J 69:299-302. 2008
    ..We embrace that opportunity and that responsibility and pledge ourselves to our shared vision of a better future for the citizens of North Carolina...
  38. ncbi DMIST results: technologic or observer variability?
    Daniel B Kopans
    Radiology 248:703; author reply 703. 2008
  39. ncbi A limitation of ACRIN DMIST
    Gordon L Hixson
    Radiology 248:702; author reply 702-3. 2008
  40. ncbi Combined screening with ultrasound and mammography vs mammography alone in women at elevated risk of breast cancer
    Wendie A Berg
    American Radiology Services Inc, Johns Hopkins Green Spring, Lutherville, Maryland, USA
    JAMA 299:2151-63. 2008
    ..Screening ultrasound may depict small, node-negative breast cancers not seen on mammography...
  41. ncbi Accuracy of soft-copy digital mammography versus that of screen-film mammography according to digital manufacturer: ACRIN DMIST retrospective multireader study
    R Edward Hendrick
    Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Ctr and Dept of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Univ, Galter Pavilion, 13th Floor, 251 E Huron St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
    Radiology 247:38-48. 2008
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  42. ncbi Cost-effectiveness of digital mammography breast cancer screening
    Anna N A Tosteson
    The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
    Ann Intern Med 148:1-10. 2008
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  43. ncbi A comparative study of mobile electronic data entry systems for clinical trials data collection
    Elodia Cole
    University of North Carolina, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, CB 7515, Radiology Research Labs, 106 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Int J Med Inform 75:722-9. 2006
    ..To determine the speed, accuracy, ease of use, and user satisfaction of various electronic data entry platforms for use in the collection of mammography clinical trials data...
  44. ncbi Should breast imaging practices convert to digital mammography? A response from members of the DMIST Executive Committee
    Etta D Pisano
    Radiology 245:12-3. 2007
  45. ncbi Cancer yield of mammography, MR, and US in high-risk women: prospective multi-institution breast cancer screening study
    Constance D Lehman
    Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, 825 Eastlake Ave E, G3 200, Seattle, WA 98109 1023, USA
    Radiology 244:381-8. 2007
    ..To prospectively determine cancer yield, callback and biopsy rates, and positive predictive value (PPV) of mammography, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and ultrasonography (US) in women at high risk for breast cancer...
  46. ncbi Factors affecting decreasing radiation dose for mammography in North Carolina after 2002: an analysis of Food and Drug Administration annual surveys
    Cherie M Kuzmiak
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Acad Radiol 14:685-91. 2007
    ..S. Food and Drug Administration Mammography Quality Standards Act inspections of mammography equipment in North Carolina from 2002 through 2005...
  47. ncbi Comparison of calcification specificity in digital mammography using soft-copy display versus screen-film mammography
    Hak Hee Kim
    Department of Radiology, University of Ulsan, Asan Medical Center, 388-1, Seoul 138-736, South Korea
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 187:47-50. 2006
    ..CONCLUSION: No statistically significant difference was shown in specificity achievable using soft-copy digital versus screen-film mammography in this study...
  48. ncbi Diagnostic accuracy of digital mammography in patients with dense breasts who underwent problem-solving mammography: effects of image processing and lesion type
    Elodia B Cole
    Department of Radiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7510, USA
    Radiology 226:153-60. 2003
    ..CONCLUSION: Findings in this study indicate that radiologist's interpretation accuracy in interpreting digital mammograms depends on lesion type. Interpretation accuracy was not influenced by the image-processing method...
  49. ncbi Congressional update: Report from the Biomedical Imaging Program of the National Cancer Institute. American College of Radiology Imaging Network: The digital mammographic imaging screening trial--an update
    Barbara Galen
    Biomedical Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20892-7440, USA
    Acad Radiol 9:374-5. 2002
  50. ncbi Digital mammography
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, 515 Old Infirmary, CB 7510, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Radiology 234:353-62. 2005
    ..In addition, several potentially useful applications that are being developed with digital mammography will be described...
  51. ncbi Factors predicting successful needle-localized breast biopsy
    Page E Abrahamson
    Department of Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Acad Radiol 10:601-6. 2003
    ..02), and decreased specimen volume (P = .03). CONCLUSION: Needle localization wires should be placed within 5 mm of mammographically visible lesions to increase the probability of successful lesion excision...
  52. ncbi The role of magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosis and management of breast cancer
    Dag Pavic
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical School, CB 7510, 101 Manning Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Technol Cancer Res Treat 3:527-41. 2004
    ..Its potential benefit in screening high-risk women has yet to be established with prospective studies, particularly with regard to false positive results...
  53. ncbi Improved image contrast of calcifications in breast tissue specimens using diffraction enhanced imaging
    Miklos Z Kiss
    Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
    Phys Med Biol 49:3427-39. 2004
    ..5 for all calcifications. This improved image contrast for even near-pixel-size calcifications suggests potential utility for DEI in breast imaging...
  54. ncbi Diagnostic accuracy of Fischer Senoscan Digital Mammography versus screen-film mammography in a diagnostic mammography population
    Elodia Cole
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 106 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Acad Radiol 11:879-86. 2004
    ..To compare the diagnostic accuracy of the Fischer Senoscan Digital Mammography System with that of standard screen-film mammography in a population of women presenting for screening or diagnostic mammography...
  55. ncbi Online annotation tool for digital mammography
    Yuanshui Zheng
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7515, RRL MRI Building, 106 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27759, USA
    Acad Radiol 11:566-72. 2004
    ..To develop a software tool for radiologists to annotate mammograms online...
  56. ncbi Factors affecting increasing radiation dose for mammography in North Carolina from 1997 through 2001: an analysis of Food and Drug Administration annual surveys
    Etta D Pisano
    Department of Radiology and Biostatistics, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7510 Manning Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7510, USA
    Acad Radiol 11:536-43. 2004
    ..To determine which factors affected the increase in average glandular dose recorded at the annual US Food and Drug Administration Mammography Quality Standards Act inspections of mammography equipment in North Carolina from 1997 to 2001...
  57. ncbi Stereotactic and sonographic large-core biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions: results of the Radiologic Diagnostic Oncology Group V study
    Laurie L Fajardo
    Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Acad Radiol 11:293-308. 2004
    ..6, 98.5, and 98.9 respectively for SCB). CONCLUSION: Percutaneous, imaged-guided core breast biopsy is an accurate diagnostic alternative to surgical biopsy in women with mammographically detected suspicious breast lesions...
  58. ncbi Diagnostic agreement in the evaluation of image-guided breast core needle biopsies: results from a randomized clinical trial
    Laura C Collins
    Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 28:126-31. 2004
    ..89, 95% confidence interval 0.86-0.92). CONCLUSIONS: The level of diagnostic agreement in interpretation of breast CNB is extremely high among pathologists and is comparable to that seen for open surgical biopsy...
  59. ncbi Low-dose multidetector dynamic CT in the breast: preliminary study
    Bo Kyoung Seo
    Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Konkuk University Hospital, 1 Whayang dong, Kwangjin gu, Seoul 143 914, South Korea
    Clin Imaging 29:172-8. 2005
    ..In breast cancers, low-dose dynamic CT could be used for the staging of breast cancer before surgery...
  60. ncbi The effects of gray scale image processing on digital mammography interpretation performance
    Elodia B Cole
    Department of Radiology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, CB#7515, Radiology Research Labs, 106 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Acad Radiol 12:585-95. 2005
    ..CONCLUSION: Specific image-processing algorithms may be necessary for optimal presentation for interpretation based on machine and lesion type...
  61. ncbi Diagnostic architectural and dynamic features at breast MR imaging: multicenter study
    Mitchell D Schnall
    Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Radiology 238:42-53. 2006
    ..To prospectively determine the prevalence and predictive value of three-dimensional (3D) and dynamic breast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and contrast material kinetic features alone and as part of predictive diagnostic models...
  62. ncbi Comparison of full-field digital mammography to screen-film mammography with respect to contrast and spatial resolution in tissue equivalent breast phantoms
    Cherie M Kuzmiak
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Old Infirmary Builiding, Room 513, CB#7510, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
    Med Phys 32:3144-50. 2005
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  63. ncbi Comparison of full-field digital mammography to screen-film mammography with respect to diagnostic accuracy of lesion characterization in breast tissue biopsy specimens
    Cherie M Kuzmiak
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Box 7510, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA
    Acad Radiol 9:1378-82. 2002
    ..CONCLUSION: The results demonstrate that with breast surgical specimens, FFDM is similar in diagnostic accuracy to screen-film mammography...
  64. ncbi Estrogen-plus-progestin use and mammographic density in postmenopausal women: Women's Health Initiative randomized trial
    Anne McTiernan
    Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98019, USA
    J Natl Cancer Inst 97:1366-76. 2005
    ..Increased mammographic density reduces the sensitivity of screening mammography, is associated with increased breast cancer risk, and may be hormone related. We assessed the effect of estrogen-plus-progestin therapy on mammographic density...
  65. ncbi Ultrasound in the management of breast disease
    Dag Pavic
    Breast Imaging Section, Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
    Curr Womens Health Rep 3:156-64. 2003
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  66. ncbi Prevention and early detection clinical trials: opportunities for primary care providers and their patients
    Leslie G Ford
    Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
    CA Cancer J Clin 53:82-101. 2003
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  67. ncbi Imaging and cancer: research strategy of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network
    Denise R Aberle
    Department of Radiology of the University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    Radiology 235:741-51. 2005
    ..This article details ACRIN's research strategy according to disease site through the year 2007...
  68. ncbi Pregnancy- and lactation-associated breast cancer: mammographic and sonographic findings
    Bo Young Ahn
    Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
    J Ultrasound Med 22:491-7; quiz 498-9. 2003
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  69. ncbi Magnetic resonance imaging of the breast prior to biopsy
    David A Bluemke
    Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    JAMA 292:2735-42. 2004
    ..Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been shown to have high sensitivity for cancer detection and is increasingly used following mammography to evaluate suspicious breast lesions...
  70. ncbi MRI detection of distinct incidental cancer in women with primary breast cancer studied in IBMC 6883
    Mitchell D Schnall
    Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    J Surg Oncol 92:32-8. 2005
    ..We report on the rate of MRI and mammography detection of foci of distinct incidental cancer in a prospective, multi center trial involving 426 women with confirmed breast cancer at 15 institutions in the US, Canada, and Germany...
  71. ncbi Future directions in breast imaging
    Marcia Koomen
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    J Clin Oncol 23:1674-7. 2005
  72. ncbi A comparative study of 2D and 3D ultrasonography for evaluation of solid breast masses
    Kyu Ran Cho
    Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Korea University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
    Eur J Radiol 54:365-70. 2005
    ..CONCLUSION: In spite of superior image quality on 3D ultrasonography, it does not provide additional benefits to diagnostic accuracy for diagnosis of breast cancer...
  73. ncbi Does biopsy, aspiration or six-month follow-up of a false-positive mammogram reduce future screening or have large psychosocial effects?
    Beverly V Currence
    Department of Radiology, Radiology Research Lab, CB 7515, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Acad Radiol 10:1257-66. 2003
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