Breast screening technologists: Does real-life case volume affect performance?

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 399-406

  Scott, Hazel J ^a   Gale, Alastair G ^a   Wooding, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast Screening; Case Volume; Double reading; Performance; PERFORMS; Radiologist; Technologist

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

CASE VOLUME; DOUBLE-READING; PERSONAL PERFORMANCE IN MAMMOGRAPHIC SCREENING (PERFORMS); RADIOLOGISTS; TECHNOLOGISTS;

SCREENING;

EID: 12144263399     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.540333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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