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Table 2.

Prospective studies on the usefulness of CAD for detection of breast cancers in screening mammography

Authors	No. of cases	Gain in cancer detection rate	Increase in recall rate
Freer et al. (1)	12,860	19.5%	18.8%
Gur et al. (2)	115,571	1.7%	0.1%
Birdwell et al. (3)	8,682	7.4%	7.6%
Cupples et al. (4)	27,274	16.1%	8.1%
Morton et al. (5)	18,096	7.6%	10.8%
Dean et al. (6)	9,520	10.8%	26.0%