A revisit on correlation between Tabár and Birads based risk assessment schemes with full field digital mammography

Wenda He, Minnie Kibiro, Arne Juette, Erika R. E. Denton, Reyer Zwiggelaar

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Abstract

Mammographic risk assessment is used to determine the probability of a woman developing breast cancer and it plays an important role in the early detection and disease prevention within screening mammography. Tabár and Birads are two fundamentally different risk schemes, one is assessed based on mixtures of breast parenchyma and the other one is assessed based on the percentage of dense breast tissue. This paper presents findings on the correlation between these two mammographic risk assessment schemes; aspects with respect to reader experience and related inter reader variability were also investigated. As a follow up (revisit) investigation to a previously published paper, the new results have shown a strong correlation between Tabár and Birads with the highest Spearman’s correlation coefficient > 0.92 and κ = 0.86% (almost perfect agreement). The statistical results vary with readers’ mammographic reading experience, which also indicated subtle information such as that some mixture of breast parenchma (Tabár specific mammographic building blocks) may be more likely to cause inter reader variability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBreast Imaging - 12th International Workshop, IWDM 2014, Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication12th International Workshop, IWDM 2014, Gifu City, Japan, June 29 - July 2, 2014, Proceedings
EditorsHiroshi Fujita, Takeshi Hara, Chisako Muramatsu
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages327-333
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-07887-8
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-07886-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 06 Jun 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8539 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Birads
  • Tabár
  • digital mammography
  • risk assessment

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