Publications by authors named "Rita E Sohlich"
Objective: To determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast imaging education.
Methods: A 22-item survey addressing four themes during the early pandemic (time on service, structured education, clinical training, future plans) was emailed to Society of Breast Imaging members and members-in-training in July 2020. Responses were compared using McNemar's and Mann-Whitney tests; a general linear model was used for multivariate analysis.
Objective: To determine the early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast imaging centers in California and Texas and compare regional differences.
Methods: An 11-item survey was emailed to American College of Radiology accredited breast imaging facilities in California and Texas in August 2020. A question subset addressed March-April government restrictions on elective services ("during the shutdown" and "after reopening").
Objective: We sought to determine whether a probabilistic expert system can provide accurate automated imaging-histologic correlations to aid radiologists in assessing the concordance of mammographic findings with the results of imaging-guided breast biopsies.
Materials And Methods: We created a Bayesian network in which Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) descriptors are used to convey the level of suspicion of mammographic abnormalities. Our system is a computer model that links BI-RADS descriptors with diseases of the breast using probabilities derived from the literature.
Objective: The purpose of our study was to analyze the differences in clinical outcomes of diagnostic and screening mammography depending on whether comparison is made with previous examinations.
Materials And Methods: We analyzed 48,281 consecutive mammography examinations for which previous mammography (9825 diagnostic, 38,456 screening) had been performed between 1997 and 2001, collecting data on demographics, whether comparison actually was made with previous examinations, abnormal findings (recall for screening mammography or biopsy recommendation for diagnostic mammography), biopsy yield of cancer, cancer detection rate, size of invasive cancers, axillary nodal status, and cancer stage.
Results: Comparison with previous examinations in the incidence screening setting decreases the recall rate from 4.
Objective: The objective of this study was to use mathematic models to aid mammography practices in interpreting outcomes data derived from a combination of screening and diagnostic examinations, and in interpreting diagnostic mammography outcomes data that are not segregated by indication for examination.
Materials And Methods: We analyzed outcomes from 51,805 consecutive mammography examinations. Screening and diagnostic examinations were audited separately.