Abstract
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, we show how scientific research has had to be adapted in order to create the automated volumetric breast density assessment tool, Volpara®, to make it ready for actual clinical use and how it is impacting patient management.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Pisano, E., et al.: Diagnostic Accuracy of Digital versus Film Mammography: Exploratory Analysis of Selected Population Subgroups in DMIST. Radiology 246(2), 376 (2008)
Arora, N., King, T.A., Jacks, L.M., Stempel, M.M., Patil, S., Morris, E., Morrow, M.: Impact of Breast Density on the Presenting Features of Malignancy. Ann. Surg. Oncolol. 17, S211–S218 (2010)
Berg, W.A., et al.: Combined Screening with Ultrasound and Mammography vs Mammography Alone in Women at Elevated Risk of Breast Cancer. JAMA 303(15), 1482 (2008)
Steenbergen, S., Weigert, J.: The Connecticut Experiment: The Role of Ultrasound in the Screening of Dense Breasts. RSNA (2011)
Berg, W.A., Campassi, C., Langenberq, P., Sexton, M.J.: BIRADS: Inter-and Intra-Observer Variability in Feature Analysis and Final Assessment. AJR 174(6), 1769–1777 (2000)
Harvey, J.A., Bovbjerg, V.E.: Quantitative Assessment of Mammographic Density: Relationship with Breast Cancer Risk. Radiology 230, 29–41 (2004)
Nicholson, B.T., LoRusso, A.P., Smolkin, M., Bovbjerg, V.E., Petroni, G.R., Harvey, J.A.: Accuracy of Assigned BI-RADS Breast Density Category Definitions. Acad. Radiology 13(9), 1143–1149 (2006)
Ciatto, S., Visioli, C., Paci, E., Zappa, M.: Breast Density As a Determinant of Interval Cancer At Mammographic Screening. Breast Journal of Cancer 90, 393–396 (2004)
Martin, K.E., Helvie, M.A., Zhou, C., Roubidoux, M.A., Bailey, J.E., Paramaqul, C., Blane, C.E., Klein, K.A., Sonnad, S.S., Chan, H.P.: Mammographic Density Measured with Quantitative Computer-Aided Method: Comparison to Radiologists’ Estimates and BI-RADS categories. Radiology 240(3), 656–665 (2006)
Ren, B., Smith, A.P., Marshall, J.: Investigation of Practical Scoring Methods for Breast Density. In: Martí, J., Oliver, A., Freixenet, J., Martí, R. (eds.) IWDM 2010. LNCS, vol. 6136, pp. 651–658. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Ng, K.-H., Yip, C.-H., Taib, N.A.M.: Standardization of Clinical Breast Density Measurement. Lancet Oncology 13, 334 (2012)
Highnam, R., Brady, S.M., Yaffe, M.J., Karssemeijer, N., Harvey, J.: Robust Breast Composition Measurement - VolparaTM. In: Martí, J., Oliver, A., Freixenet, J., Martí, R. (eds.) IWDM 2010. LNCS, vol. 6136, pp. 342–349. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Jeffreys, M., Harvey, J., Highnam, R.: Comparing a new volumetric breast density method (VolparaTM) to cumulus. In: Martí, J., Oliver, A., Freixenet, J., Martí, R. (eds.) IWDM 2010. LNCS, vol. 6136, pp. 408–413. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Shepherd, J.A., Herve, L., Landau, J., Fan, B., Kerlikowske, K., Cummings, S.R.: Novel Use of Single X-ray Absorptiometry for Measuring Breast Density. Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. 4(2), 173–182 (2005)
Highnam, R., Brady, M.: Mammographic Image Analysis. Kluwer Academic Press (1999)
Van Engeland, S., Snoeren, P.R., Huisman, H., Boetes, C., Karssemeijer, N.: Volumetric Breast Density Estimation From Full-Field Digital Mammograms. IEEE Medical Imaging 25(3) (2006)
Kopans, D.: Breast Imaging. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2003)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Highnam, R., Sauber, N., Destounis, S., Harvey, J., McDonald, D. (2012). Breast Density into Clinical Practice. In: Maidment, A.D.A., Bakic, P.R., Gavenonis, S. (eds) Breast Imaging. IWDM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31271-7_60
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31271-7_60
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-31270-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-31271-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)