Breast Imaging Contents

Artificial Intelligence and Mammography

Screening for breast cancer, the most common cancer, is typically done with mammography. Breast MRI and tomosynthesis are also currently used in breast cancer screening. Due to the high-dimensional and complex nature of the resulting images, interpreting them is difficult and time-consuming.

What is Mammography?

A breast image taken with special devices using a very small amount of X-ray is called a mammography.

What is the Purpose of Mammography?

Mammography is often performed for screening purposes to detect breast cancer early in patients who have no breast complaints.

What is Digital Mammography?

Devices produced with the technological advancements that replaced the mammography film, which is normally used as an analog detector, with digital detectors are called digital mammography.

What is Tomosynthesis Digital Mammography?

In normal digital two-dimensional mammograms, a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional object (breast) was obtained, with the images of the tissues superimposed on each other.

What kind of examination is mammography?

A mammogram is a special type of breast X-ray taken using low-dose x-rays.

Tomosynthesis and Radiation Dose

The radiation dose received during a digital 2-dimensional mammography is equal to the radiation dose received for a position in a 3-dimensional tomosynthesis mammography in many devices with today's technology.

Compression in Mammography

How necessary is compression in mammography? What is its importance?

Compression in Tomosynthesis

In tomosynthesis (3D) breast mammographic examination, the need for breast compression (compressing the breast in the mammography device), which is necessary to obtain optimal images from the breast tissue in normal two-dimensional mammograms, is significantly reduced.

How is Breast Cancer Screening Done?

Mammography is used to detect breast cancer at an early stage by taking breast x-rays of women over a certain age.

Are There Any Advantages to Digital Mammography?

Studies have shown that the breast cancer detection rate in dense fibrocystic breasts is higher with digital mammography devices than with analog systems.

Preparation for Mammography

No preparation is required for mammography.

Can Those With Silicone Implants Have Mammograms?

There is no obstacle to mammography in those with silicone implants.

Does mammography detect all breast cancers?

No, unfortunately it doesn't.

What is the advantage of tomosynthesis?

Just like the superiority of lung tomography over normal chest radiography, the image confusion created by objects with overlapping images in two-dimensional radiography is reduced in cross-sectional three-dimensional tomosynthesis images and the possibility of missing tumors is significantly reduced.

Tomosynthesis and Breast Cancer

The rate of detecting breast cancer increases significantly thanks to the imaging technique performed with 1 mm thin slices in the tomosynthesis (three-dimensional mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis) technique.

What is BIRADS?

It's the name of the reporting method, derived from the initials of the breast reporting and data recording system, "BreastImagingReportingAndDataSystems." The aim of this method is to standardize mammography and other breast radiology reports in a way that everyone can easily understand and agree on, and to provide guidance on how to proceed based on the categories specified in the results of the reports.

What is breast MRI?

Breast MRI is the MRI examination of the breast using special breast coils (antennas) in MRI devices.

Cyst Aspiration

Cysts are benign tumors of the breast filled with fluid. They do not become malignant (cancerous).

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