Breast Density Legislation

The density conundrum: does legislation help or hurt?

Breast density and breast density legislation are controversial and potentially emotional issues in breast screening. Informing individual patients of their breast density status is an extremely important and highly personal conversation that must focus on patients' specific situations. The unanswered questions about converting population risk make it difficult to provide an individual woman wi...

NMF-Density: NMF-Based Breast Density Classifier

The amount of tissue available in the breast, commonly characterized by the breast density, is highly correlated with breast cancer. In fact, dense breasts have higher risk of developing breast cancer. On the other hand, breast density influences the mammographic interpretation since it decreases the sensitivity of breast cancer detection. This sensitivity decrease is due to the fact that both ...

Breast Density into Clinical Practice

It is well established that breast density is related to breast cancer risk; making that connection precise, and understanding how to use it in clinical practice, has been a major academic focus since the 1970’s. However, it transpires that the first clinical uses of breast density have not been for risk prediction, rather they are for judging when to recommend further imaging. In this paper, w...

Impact of quantitative breast density on experienced radiologists' assessment of mammographic breast density

Mammographic Density Estimation with Automated Volumetric Breast Density Measurement

OBJECTIVE To compare automated volumetric breast density measurement (VBDM) with radiologists' evaluations based on the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS), and to identify the factors associated with technical failure of VBDM. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, 1129 women aged 19-82 years who underwent mammography from December 2011 to January 2012 were included. Breast dens...