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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Radiol. 2021 Nov 13;145:110029. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.110029

Table 4.

Comparison of readers’ BI-RADS assessments of the index lesion based on conventional imaging (CI) and integrated CI and diffuse optical tomography (DOT), stratified by whether the lesion was benign or malignant on biopsy, and by whether the BI-RADS assessment indicated follow-up (2 or 3) or biopsy (≥4).

Reader CI CI & DOT


Benign Malignant Benign Malignant




2 or 3 ≥4 2 or 3 ≥4 2 or 3 ≥4 2 or 3 ≥4

All 17 132 0 48 48 101 0 48
1 1 40 0 10 6 35 0 10
2 5 37 0 13 12 30 0 13
3 3 39 0 15 17 25 0 15
4 8 16 0 10 13 11 0 10