Open AccessComprehensive quantitative malignant risk prediction of pure grouped amorphous calcifications: clinico-mammographic nomogram
Author(s) -
Lijuan Shen,
Tingting Jiang,
Pengzhou Tang,
Huijuan Ge,
Chao You,
Weijun Peng
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2223-4292
pISSN - 2223-4306
DOI - 10.21037/qims-21-797
Subject(s) - nomogram , medicine , receiver operating characteristic , confidence interval , breast imaging , malignancy , cutoff , mammography , radiology , odds ratio , cohort , area under the curve , bi rads , biopsy , false positive paradox , breast cancer , cancer , statistics , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics
Pure grouped amorphous calcifications are classified as Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) category 4B suspicious calcifications and recommended for biopsy. However, the biopsies often reveal benign findings, especially in screening mammograms (92.4-97.2%).
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