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The UK National Health Service Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) provides free mammographic screening for all women between the ages of 50 and 69. This paper examines in detail the way in which the programme is implemented in one of the busiest breast screening centres, discussing the implications of current practice for the introduction of computer aided detection systems. The paper also investigates the different types of abnormality that arise in older and younger women within the screening age group, and discusses how this is likely to affect prompting systems.
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Tomlinson, L., Hurley, N., Boggis, C., Morris, J., Hurley, E., Astley, S. (2006). Current Screening Practice: Implications for the Introduction of CAD. In: Astley, S.M., Brady, M., Rose, C., Zwiggelaar, R. (eds) Digital Mammography. IWDM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783237_9
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