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Findings published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, found that computer-aided detection spotted nearly the same number of cancers, 198 out of 227, compared to 199 for two radiologists or technicians.
In other words, computer-aided detection is just as good as two radiologists at spotting breast cancer on a mammogram. Not to say that two eyes are not better than one, but instead of one radiologist taking at look at it, as is the case in most readings, a computer could do as well as two pairs of eyes.
Dr. Carol H. Lee, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said: “In the United States, it’s just not practical in most practices to do double readings by physicians. These results are reassuring to me that single reading with CAD can achieve that same sensitivity.”
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