The image quality and lesion characterization of breast using automated whole-breast ultrasound: A comparison with handheld ultrasound

Prospective Study Comparing Two Second‐Look Ultrasound Techniques

“…22,25 In addition, the accuracy of the ABVS in depicting suspicious breast lesions was found to be comparable with that of handheld US in recent studies. [19][20][21][22] The utility of second-look US has been studied by sev-eral investigators. 9,10,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] Despite variations in study design, the conclusions reached were relatively uniform.…”

“…[11][12][13][14] In addition, several studies recently assessed the application of an ABVS in breast lesion diagnostics. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] In one study, the diagnostic performance of the ABVS as a secondlook US modality after preoperative MRI was reported. 23 Thus, the objectives of this prospective investigation were to compare the diagnostic performance of handheld US and an ABVS as second-look US approaches for evaluating additional suspicious lesions detected by preoperative breast MRI in patients with breast cancer and to assess which second-look US approach is more useful for preoperative evaluations.…”

Preliminary study of the technical limitations of automated breast ultrasound: from procedure to diagnosis

“…On the acquisition side, the main strategies for reducing artifacts include providing technicians with specific training on patient positioning and transducer contact; and instructing them to increase the pressure of the transducer and to change the angle of insonation. Once technicians or technologists are able to recognize acoustic shadowing caused by artifact, they can repeat the scanning immediately (13,14,24,25) .…”

Automated Breast Ultrasound: Dual-Sided Compared with Single-Sided Imaging

“…(Kim, et al 2013). Two other recent studies have investigated the image quality of masses in ABUS images compared with those produced by hand scanning (An et al 2015, Kuzmiak et al 2015). ABUS is desirable because of its efficiency (Kaplan 2014) and orderly coverage for comparison with previous, similar exams.…”