Impact of Background Parenchymal Enhancement (BPE) on diagnostic performance of Contrast-Enhanced Mammography (CEM) for breast cancer diagnosis
BPE significantly affects the diagnostic performance of CEM, particularly sensitivity. This highlights the importance of assessing and reporting BPE in CEM to provide a simple metric indicating the reliability of test results.
Authors
- Thomas H. Helbich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3169-778X)
- Ambra Santonocito (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6271-1383)
- Pascal Baltzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3755-5398)
- Paola Clauser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2365-6905)
- Nina Pötsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6280-1012)
- Sonja Bechyna
Institutions
- Medical University of Vienna (AT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Radiology
- Published
- 2025-04-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2025.112145
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 13.67