See something, say something: the coroner's perspective.

The communicating safely policy, publicised by the catchphrase See Something, Say Something was released by the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia in 2019. It was developed to support medical radiation practitioners (MRPs) upholding the obligation to communicate urgent or unexpected findings in a timely manner, when identified on medical images. Prior to this policy being part of the professional capabilities, several untimely deaths occurred-the majority of whose causal factors could have been mitigated if imaging findings were urgently communicated by MRPs.

RRIMS: Radiation Risk In Mammography Screening - model evaluation.

Objective: The adiation isk n ammography creening (RRIMS) model was introduced as a novel tool to help females accurately calculate their lifetime mean glandular dose (MGD) and estimate their population-level risk of radiation-induced breast cancer incidence and mortality.

Methods: The model's accuracy was evaluated by comparing the received MGD of 317 women who had undergone a total of 733 visits across one to four rounds of screening. This was achieved by comparing the RRIMS predicted dose values with the same examination dose calculated manually by hand.

Reliability of radiologists' first impression when interpreting a screening mammogram.

Previous studies showed that radiologists can detect the gist of an abnormality in a mammogram based on a half-second image presentation through global processing of screening mammograms. This study investigated the intra- and inter-observer reliability of the radiologists' initial impressions about the abnormality (or "gist signal"). It also examined if a subset of radiologists produced more reliable and accurate gist signals.

Associations of Breast Arterial Calcifications with Cardiovascular Disease.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including coronary artery disease (CAD), continue to be the leading cause of global mortality among women. While traditional CVD/CAD prevention tools play a significant role in reducing morbidity and mortality among both men and women, current tools for preventing CVD/CAD rely on traditional risk factor-based algorithms that often underestimate CVD/CAD risk in women compared with men. In recent years, some studies have suggested that breast arterial calcifications (BAC), which are benign calcifications seen in mammograms, may be linked to CVD/CAD.

Do Reader Characteristics Affect Diagnostic Efficacy in Screening Mammography? A Systematic Review.

To examine reader characteristics associated with diagnostic efficacy in the interpretation of screening mammograms. A systematic search of the literature was conducted using databases such as Cochrane, Scopus, Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and PubMed. Search terms were combined with "AND" or "OR" and included: "Radiologist's characteristics AND performance"; "radiologist experience AND screening mammography"; "annual volume read AND diagnostic efficacy"; "screening mammography performance OR diagnostic efficacy".

Periapical Radiography versus Cone Beam Computed Tomography in Endodontic Disease Detection: A Free-response, Factorial Study.

Aim: To assess and compare reader performance in interpreting digital periapical (PA) radiography and cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) in endodontic disease detection, using a free-response, factorial model.

Materials And Methods: A reader performance study of 2 image test sets was undertaken using a factorial, free-response design, accounting for the independent variables: case type, case severity, reader type, and imaging modality. Twenty-two readers interpreted 60 PA and 60 CBCT images divided into 5 categories: diseased-subtle, diseased-moderate, diseased-obvious, nondiseased-subtle, and nondiseased-obvious.

RRIMS: Radiation Risk In Mammography Screening - a novel model for predicting the lifetime dose and risk of radiation-induced breast cancer from the first screening visit.

Objectives: adiation isk n ammography creening () builds on the prototype, formerly known as Breast-iRRISC, to develop a model that aims to establish a dose and risk profile for females by calculating their lifetime mean glandular dose (MGD) for each age of screening between 40 and 75 years, using only the information from her first screening visit. This is then used to allocate her to a dose category and estimate the lifetime risk of radiation-induced breast cancer incidence and mortality for a population of females in that category.

Methods: This model training was developed using a large dataset of Hologic images containing a total of 20,232 images from 5,076 visits from 4,154 females.

SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY: DIAGNOSTIC EFFICACY-ISSUES AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE 2020S.

Diagnostic efficacy in medical imaging is ultimately a reflection of radiologist performance. This can be influenced by numerous factors, some of which are patient related, such as the physical size and density of the breast, and machine related, where some lesions are difficult to visualise on traditional imaging techniques. Other factors are human reader errors that occur during the diagnostic process, which relate to reader experience and their perceptual and cognitive oversights.

Global processing provides malignancy evidence complementary to the information captured by humans or machines following detailed mammogram inspection.

The information captured by the gist signal, which refers to radiologists' first impression arising from an initial global image processing, is poorly understood. We examined whether the gist signal can provide complementary information to data captured by radiologists (experiment 1), or computer algorithms (experiment 2) based on detailed mammogram inspection. In the first experiment, 19 radiologists assessed a case set twice, once based on a half-second image presentation (i.

Impact of Hours Awake and Hours Slept at Night on Radiologists' Mammogram Interpretations.

Objectives: To examine whether radiologists' mammogram reading performance varies according to how long they have been awake ("hours awake") and the number of hours they slept ("hours slept") the night before a reading session.

Methods: Retrospective data were retrieved from the BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy database. Malignancy-enriched mammographic readings were performed by 133 radiologists.

Breast-iRRISC: a novel model for predicting the individualised lifetime risk of radiation-induced breast cancer from a single screening event.

Objectives: This work establishes the prototype of a new innovative risk model that aims to evaluate the total risk involved with screening mammography for each individual female. This has been specifically designed to accommodate any combination of lifetime screening regimes, using only the information gathered from a single mammographic examination.

Methods: This model prototype was developed with the aid of a large dataset of images from the Cancer Institute New South Wales (CINSW) with over 30,000 images from over 7000 examinations.