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In this work [1], we describe the field research, design, and comparative deployment of a multimodal medical imaging user interface for breast screening [2, 3]. The main contributions described here are threefold: 1) The design of an advanced visual interface for multimodal diagnosis of breast cancer (BreastScreening); 2) Insights from the field comparison of Single-Modality vs Multi-Modality screening of breast cancer diagnosis with 31 clinicians and 566 images; and 3) The visualization of the two main types of breast lesions in the following image modalities: (i) MammoGraphy (MG) in both Craniocaudal (CC) and Mediolateral oblique (MLO) views; (ii) UltraSound (US); and (iii) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

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Why is it important?

We summarize our work with recommendations from the radiologists for guiding the future design of medical imaging interfaces. Our work and contributions included: a) identifying the main clinical workflow issues, the interaction cognitive load challenges and the opportunities; b) establishing a set of design goals for medical imaging design; c) the design, reflections, and in-situ evaluation of BreastScreening supporting the clinical translation; and d) the impact evidence of Multi-Modality in diagnosing and severity classification of breast lesions with 31 radiologists in six different clinical institutions. Our results show that the system can lead to a more efficient and accurate clinical diagnosis.

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In this work, it is proposed a new medical imaging framework supported by an interactive UI. More precisely, the development of a framework to generate a standardized dataset of medical imaging annotations. Across the domain of breast cancer, we adopt a multimodality visualization strategy (i.e., MG, US, and MRI) in order to provide clinicians a tool for the production of those qualified datasets. In the end, we foster clinicians' sharing and collaborative evaluation by developing a distributed, as well as a remotely accessible framework.

Mr. Francisco Maria Galamba Ferrari Calisto
Universidade de Lisboa

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This page is a summary of: BreastScreening, September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3399715.3399744.
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