How are false negative cases perceived by mammographers? Which abnormalities are misinterpreted and which go undetected?

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6917, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Scott, Hazel J ^a   Gale, Alastair G ^a   Hill, Sue ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast screening; Image perception; Mammographic feature; Observer performance evaluation; Perception; PERFORMS

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BLOCK CODES; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERRORS; GAIT ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTITASKING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SCREENING; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY;

ARCHITECTURAL DISTORTION (AD); BREAST-SCREENING; ERROR TYPES; FALSE NEGATIVES; FEATURE TYPES; IMAGE PERCEPTION; MAMMOGRAPHIC; NON-DETECTION; OBSERVER PERFORMANCES; PERSONAL PERFORMANCE IN MAMMOGRAPHIC SCREENING (PERFORMS); SELF-ASSESSMENT; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (TA);

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 44949103341     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.771137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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