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Our journey toward implementation of digital breast tomosynthesis in breast cancer screening : the Malmö Breast Tomosynthesis Screening Project

Tingberg, Anders LU orcid ; Dahlblom, Victor LU orcid ; Dustler, Magnus LU orcid ; Förnvik, Daniel LU orcid ; Johnson, Kristin LU orcid ; Timberg, Pontus LU and Zackrisson, Sophia LU (2025) In Journal of Medical Imaging 12.
Abstract

Purpose: The purpose is to describe the Malmö Breast Tomosynthesis Screening Project from the beginning to where we are now, and thoughts for the future. Approach: In two acts, we describe the efforts made by our research group to improve breast cancer screening by introducing digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), all the way from initial studies to a large prospective population-based screening trial and beyond. Results: Our studies have shown that DBT has significant advantages over digital mammography (DM), the current gold standard method for breast cancer screening in Europe, in many aspects except a major one-the increased radiologist workload introduced with DBT compared with DM. It is foreseen that AI could be a viable solution to... (More)

Purpose: The purpose is to describe the Malmö Breast Tomosynthesis Screening Project from the beginning to where we are now, and thoughts for the future. Approach: In two acts, we describe the efforts made by our research group to improve breast cancer screening by introducing digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), all the way from initial studies to a large prospective population-based screening trial and beyond. Results: Our studies have shown that DBT has significant advantages over digital mammography (DM), the current gold standard method for breast cancer screening in Europe, in many aspects except a major one-the increased radiologist workload introduced with DBT compared with DM. It is foreseen that AI could be a viable solution to overcome this problem. Conclusions: We have proved that one-view DBT is a highly efficient screening approach with respect to diagnostic performance.

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breast cancer screening, digital breast tomosynthesis, mammography
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Journal of Medical Imaging
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S13006
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SPIE
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  • scopus:105007041963
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2329-4302
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10.1117/1.JMI.12.S1.S13006
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