BreastScreening: On the Use of Multi-Modality in Medical Imaging Diagnosis
This work addresses the need for improved diagnostic tools for radiologists in breast cancer screening, though it appears incremental as it focuses on interface design and comparative evaluation rather than a breakthrough method.
The paper tackled the problem of breast cancer diagnosis by designing and deploying a multimodal medical imaging interface (BreastScreening), comparing it with single-modality screening using 31 clinicians and 566 images, and providing visualization insights for mammography, ultrasound, and MRI.
This paper describes the field research, design and comparative deployment of a multimodal medical imaging user interface for breast screening. The main contributions described here are threefold: 1) The design of an advanced visual interface for multimodal diagnosis of breast cancer (BreastScreening); 2) Insights from the field comparison of single vs multimodality screening of breast cancer diagnosis with 31 clinicians and 566 images, and 3) The visualization of the two main types of breast lesions in the following image modalities: (i) MammoGraphy (MG) in both Craniocaudal (CC) and Mediolateral oblique (MLO) views; (ii) UltraSound (US); and (iii) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). We summarize our work with recommendations from the radiologists for guiding the future design of medical imaging interfaces.