Artificial Intelligence for Mammography and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Current Concepts and Future Perspectives
Publication year
2019Source
Radiology, 293, 2, (2019), pp. 246-259ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Medical Imaging
Journal title
Radiology
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vol. 293
Issue
iss. 2
Page start
p. 246
Page end
p. 259
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Radboudumc 17: Women's cancers RIHS: Radboud Institute for Health SciencesAbstract
Although computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) is widely used in mammography, conventional CAD programs that use prompts to indicate potential cancers on the mammograms have not led to an improvement in diagnostic accuracy. Because of the advances in machine learning, especially with use of deep (multilayered) convolutional neural networks, artificial intelligence has undergone a transformation that has improved the quality of the predictions of the models. Recently, such deep learning algorithms have been applied to mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). In this review, the authors explain how deep learning works in the context of mammography and DBT and define the important technical challenges. Subsequently, they discuss the current status and future perspectives of artificial intelligence-based clinical applications for mammography, DBT, and radiomics. Available algorithms are advanced and approach the performance of radiologists-especially for cancer detection and risk prediction at mammography. However, clinical validation is largely lacking, and it is not clear how the power of deep learning should be used to optimize practice. Further development of deep learning models is necessary for DBT, and this requires collection of larger databases. It is expected that deep learning will eventually have an important role in DBT, including the generation of synthetic images.
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