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Diagnostic digital mammography in Japan: issues to consider

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Digital mammography has been proposed as an alternative to screen-film mammography. Digital mammography has many technical advantages over film mammography, including image-enhancement capability, faster image acquisition, and better storage and transmission for archiving. However, its full potential can only be achieved through soft-copy reading. Soft-copy reading in digital mammography is still a relatively new technique, and has several issues which must still be resolved. It is necessary to optimize display formats and software as soon as possible to standardize soft-copy reading in digital mammography.

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  1. Department of Breast Imaging and Breast Intervention in Breast Center and Department of Clinical Physiology, Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Naga-izumi, Shizuoka, 411-8777, Japan

    Takayoshi Uematsu

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Uematsu, T. Diagnostic digital mammography in Japan: issues to consider. Breast Cancer 17, 180–182 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-009-0196-7

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