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We describe an experiment in which the PROMAM mammographic prompting system was applied to a dataset of false negative interval cancers drawn from the screening programme at the South East Scotland Breast Screening Centre between 1988 and 1995. The system is designed to prompt for microcalcifications and ill-defined masses. In 44% of the cases at least one false negative region was correctly prompted. If the specificity of the system is acceptable, this strongly suggests that the system would be of benefit in a screening environment.
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Heddle, S., Hume, A.C., Kirkpatrick, A.E. (1998). Evaluation of a Prompting System Using Interval Cancers. In: Karssemeijer, N., Thijssen, M., Hendriks, J., van Erning, L. (eds) Digital Mammography. Computational Imaging and Vision, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5318-8_57
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