CAD technology is good at spotting difficult to detect cancers
ICAd, a US provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) systems based New Hampshire, says its Second Look CAD system has been shown to be highly effective in identifying breast cancers.
ICAd, a US provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) systems based New Hampshire, says its Second Look CAD system has been shown to be highly effective in identifying breast cancers.
A study, carried out at the Department of Radiology at the George Washington University Medical Centre, concluded that the system had an overall sensitivity of 89%, making it a useful tool for the detection of breast cancer, even for difficult to detect lesions, such as invasive lobular carcinoma.
The study - Evaluation of Breast Cancer with a Computer-Aided Detection System by Mammographic Appearance and Histopathology - published in the September 1, 2005 edition of Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society, says that CAD technology effectively identified 98% of the microcalcifications, 95% of the invasive lobular carcinomas, 89% of the mixed mass/microcalcification lesions and 84% of the masses in 273 women with confirmed breast cancer.