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Article: Reading High Breast Density Mammograms: Differences in Diagnostic Performance between Radiologists from Hong Kong SAR/Guangdong Province in China and Australia.
Title | Reading High Breast Density Mammograms: Differences in Diagnostic Performance between Radiologists from Hong Kong SAR/Guangdong Province in China and Australia. |
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Keywords | Breast Cancer Screening Sensitivity Specificity breast image reading mammography |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention. The Journal's web site is located at http://journal.waocp.org/ |
Citation | Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2020, v. 21 n. 9, p. 2623-2629 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Background: Variations in the performance of radiologists reading mammographic images are well reported, but key parameters explaining such variations in different countries are not fully explored. The main aim of this study is to investigate performances of Chinese (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province) and Australian radiologists in interpreting dense breast mammographic images.
Methods: A test set, contained 60 mammographic examinations with high breast density, was used to assess radiologists' performance. Twelve Chinese and thirteen Australian radiologists read all the cases independently and were asked to identify all lesions and provide a grade from 1 to 5 to each lesion. Case sensitivity, specificity, lesion sensitivity, AUC and JAFROC were used to assess radiologists' performances. Demographic information and reading experience were also collected from the readers. Performance scores were compared between the two populations and the relationships between performance scores and their reading experience were discovered.
Results: For radiologists who were less than 40-year-old, lesion sensitivity, AUC and JAFROC were significantly lower in Chinese radiologists than those in Australian (52.10% vs 71.45%, p=0.043; 0.76 vs 0.84, p=0.031; 0.59 vs 0.72, p=0.045; respectively). Australian radiologists with less than 10 years of reading experience had higher AUC and JAFROC scores compared with their Chinese counterparts (0.83 vs 0.76, p=0.039; 0.70 vs 0.56, p=0.020, respectively).
Conclusions: We found that younger Australian radiologists performed better at reading dense breast cases which is likely to be linked to intensive fellowship training, immersion in a screening program and exposure to the benefits of a performance-measuring education tool. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/296361 |
ISSN | 2014 Impact Factor: 2.514 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.446 |
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dc.contributor.author | Li, T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Taba, ST | - |
dc.contributor.author | Khong, PL | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tan, TXL | - |
dc.contributor.author | Trieu, PDT | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, E | - |
dc.contributor.author | Suleiman, ME | - |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Brennan, P | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, S | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-22T04:54:12Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-22T04:54:12Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2020, v. 21 n. 9, p. 2623-2629 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1513-7368 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/296361 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Variations in the performance of radiologists reading mammographic images are well reported, but key parameters explaining such variations in different countries are not fully explored. The main aim of this study is to investigate performances of Chinese (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province) and Australian radiologists in interpreting dense breast mammographic images. Methods: A test set, contained 60 mammographic examinations with high breast density, was used to assess radiologists' performance. Twelve Chinese and thirteen Australian radiologists read all the cases independently and were asked to identify all lesions and provide a grade from 1 to 5 to each lesion. Case sensitivity, specificity, lesion sensitivity, AUC and JAFROC were used to assess radiologists' performances. Demographic information and reading experience were also collected from the readers. Performance scores were compared between the two populations and the relationships between performance scores and their reading experience were discovered. Results: For radiologists who were less than 40-year-old, lesion sensitivity, AUC and JAFROC were significantly lower in Chinese radiologists than those in Australian (52.10% vs 71.45%, p=0.043; 0.76 vs 0.84, p=0.031; 0.59 vs 0.72, p=0.045; respectively). Australian radiologists with less than 10 years of reading experience had higher AUC and JAFROC scores compared with their Chinese counterparts (0.83 vs 0.76, p=0.039; 0.70 vs 0.56, p=0.020, respectively). Conclusions: We found that younger Australian radiologists performed better at reading dense breast cases which is likely to be linked to intensive fellowship training, immersion in a screening program and exposure to the benefits of a performance-measuring education tool. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention. The Journal's web site is located at http://journal.waocp.org/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Breast Cancer Screening | - |
dc.subject | Sensitivity | - |
dc.subject | Specificity | - |
dc.subject | breast image reading | - |
dc.subject | mammography | - |
dc.title | Reading High Breast Density Mammograms: Differences in Diagnostic Performance between Radiologists from Hong Kong SAR/Guangdong Province in China and Australia. | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Khong, PL: plkhong@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Khong, PL=rp00467 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.9.2623 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 32986361 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC7779441 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85092026957 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 321447 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 21 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 9 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 2623 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 2629 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Thailand | - |