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. 2024 Jan 2;34(8):5415–5424. doi: 10.1007/s00330-023-10514-5

Table 3.

Characteristics of cancers detected and not detected by each reading strategy

Original screening Reader study w/o AI Reader study with AI AI standalone
All Recalled Not recalled Recalled Not recalled Recalled Not recalled Flagged Not flagged
n 379 232 147 307 72 284 95 261 118
Dense areaa Mean cm2 36.7 33.9 44.1 35.5 41.8 35.5 40.1 35.3 39.7
Percent densitya Mean % 24.5 22.7 27.4 23.4 29.4 23.3 28.0 23.4 26.9
In situ only % (n) 10 (39) 12 (29) 7 (10) 11 (35) 6 (4) 11 (32) 7 (7) 11 (29) 9 (10)
Invasive <  = 15 mm % (n) 42 (161) 44 (102) 40 (59) 44 (134) 38 (27) 42 (119) 44 (42) 41 (106) 47 (55)
Invasive > 15 mm % (n) 45 (170) 42 (98) 49 (72) 44 (134) 50 (36) 45 (128) 44 (42) 48 (124) 39 (46)
Missing information % (n) 2 (9) 1 (3) 4 (6) 1 (4) 7 (5) 2 (5) 4 (4) 1 (2) 6 (7)
Lymph node negative % (n) 66 (251) 71 (164) 59 (87) 68 (208) 60 (43) 69 (196) 58 (55) 69 (179) 61 (72)
Lymph node positive % (n) 27 (103) 22 (51) 35 (52) 25 (77) 36 (26) 24 (68) 37 (35) 25 (66) 31 (37)
Missing information % (n) 7 (25) 7 (17) 5 (8) 7 (22) 4 (3) 7 (20) 5 (5) 6 (16) 8 (9)

aDense area and percent density were calculated by the Libra software package from University of Pennsylvania (https://www.med.upenn.edu/cbica/sbia/libra.html)