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Find below our latest Radiology Journal that we found interesting. Also see below a list of past journals that we have selected for recommended reading.
The RCR credential in breast disease management for breast clinicians: from training concept to service delivery within the breast imaging team
May 2023
An excerpt from the journal that we are recommending:
In 2017, the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) began planning a credential for breast clinicians. This group of SAS grade doctors are well established in UK hospital breast departments, providing clinical and imaging services, but with no standardised training programme. Given the increasing demand on imaging services and the progressive shortage of breast radiologists, it seemed a good opportunity to develop a training pathway to enable this group of medical practitioners to practice to a recognised national standard within breast imaging. The RCR joined with the Association of Breast Clinicians (ABC), the National Breast Imaging Academy (NBIA), and Health Education England(HEE) to form a credential project board and develop a bespoke training curriculum.
Past Journals
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- February 2020
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Artificial Intelligence for Mammography and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Current Concepts and Future Perspectives
An excerpt from the journal:
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...
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Radiology: Volume 293: Number 2—November 2019 radiology.rsna.org
By Krzysztof J. Geras, PhD • Ritse M. Mann, MD, PhD • Linda Moy, MD
- December 2019
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A New Management Technique for Symptomatic Haematomas Following Therapeutic Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy.
Benign or probably benign breast lesions are detected more and more often by women themselves as a casual finding and also upon ultrasound (US) examination due to the increase in US studies in young females and in the evaluation of lesions detected by breast cancer screening programmes. Benign breast lesions cause a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety among women, who often demand surgical excision of the lesion. The vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB) technique is used as a cost effective alternative to surgery for excising benign breast lesions and offers diagnosis and treatment in the same intervention.....
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- September 2019
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Evidence for avoiding the biopsy of typical fibroadenomas in women aged 25-29 years
An excerpt from the journal that we are discussing this month:
Fibroadenomas are the commonest pathological cause of breast lumps in women <30 years and the reason for many of the referrals made to the breast clinic for this age group. Women in this age group presenting with breast lumps typically undergo a clinical examination and ultrasound imaging in the first instance. Mammography is not routinely performed because of the radiation dose and decreased sensitivity due to the dense breast tissue in young women.....
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By Kathy Taylor et al FA paper
- March 2019
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Breast Density, Why all the Fuss...?
The adult female breast is composed of variable proportions of adipose tissue and fibroglandular parenchyma.
At mammography, fibroglandular parenchyma, being denser than adipose tissue, attenuates X-rays more and appears
whiter; hence the term breast density or mammographic density, MD (Fig 1)
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