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A new international competition aims to speed up the development of AI models that can assist radiologists in detecting suspicious lesions from hundreds of millions of pixels in 3D mammograms. The top three winning teams compare notes.

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Fig. 1: Example outputs of breast lesion detection on DBT volumes from NYU.

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  1. These authors contributed equally: Jungkyu Park, Yoel Shoshan, Robert Martí.

  2. These authors jointly supervised this work: Michal Rosen-Zvi, Krzysztof J. Geras.

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  1. Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Jungkyu Park, Jakub Chłędowski, Jan Witowski, Alexandra Millet, Eric Kim, Alana Lewin, Kristine Pysarenko, Sardius Chen, Julia Goldberg, Shalin Patel, Anastasia Plaunova, Melanie Wegener, Stacey Wolfson, Jiyon Lee, Sana Hava, Sindhoora Murthy, Linda Du, Sushma Gaddam, Ujas Parikh, Laura Heacock, Linda Moy, Beatriu Reig & Krzysztof J. Geras

  2. Medical Image Analytics, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel

    Yoel Shoshan, Vadim Ratner, Daniel Khapun, Aviad Zlotnick, Ella Barkan, Flora Gilboa-Solomon & Michal Rosen-Zvi

  3. Institute of Computer Vision and Robotics, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Robert Martí & Pablo Gómez del Campo

  4. Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technologies, Kraków, Poland

    Jakub Chłędowski

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Park, J., Shoshan, Y., Martí, R. et al. Lessons from the first DBTex Challenge. Nat Mach Intell 3, 735–736 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00378-z

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