Abstract
The Breast Imaging Reporting and Database System (BI-RADS) was developed by the American College of Radiology and is used by a number of computerized mammography tracking systems. The ability of BI-RADS to encode the data contained in 300 mammography reports at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center was examined. BI-RADS was able to encode normal reports and "special masses" (such as lymph nodes) without difficulty. However, none of the general masses and only 17% of the calcifications could be encoded in BI-RADS. The implications of this for the design of mammography databases are discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 655-659 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | SUPPL. |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Informatics