With the addition of digital mammography at The Norma and Miles Zisson Comprehensive Breast Center at Good Samaritan Medical Center radiologists are able to use computer-aided detection to help identify suspicious areas with increased accuracy. The life-saving system has also added to the women’s healthcare services offered at the hospital.

Digital mammography is a technique for recording x-ray images in computer code instead of on x-ray film, as with conventional mammography. Computer aided detection (CAD) involves the use of computers to bring suspicious areas on a mammogram to the radiologist’s attention. The use of CAD may help to improve the accuracy of a screening mammography resulting in early detection.

This cutting-edge technology can detect a lump two years before the patient, and with faster imaging and less radiation than film mammography. It has superior resolution and faster speed than earlier MRIs, making it able to find cancers that many mammograms miss in high-risk patients.

Early detection of cancer is crucial in helping to save lives and often may give women less invasive and less disfiguring treatment options. At our Comprehensive Breast Center board certified medical specialists collaborate on appropriate testing and treatment designed to achieve the best possible outcome. Their integrated technology, ultrasound, digital mammography with computer aided detection, and MRI are utilized to provide patients with the highest quality mammography diagnosis.

When necessary, image-guided procedures can also be performed through our Comprehensive Breast Center. This integrated approach provides the medical staff with the tools they need to give patients access to the sophisticated breast care available today.

Good Samaritan’s digital mammography with computer-aided detection will best fit the everyday needs of breast radiologists. The computer-aided detection can achieve its greatest contribution to medicine in the field of breast cancer, where it can help radiologists to detect cancer at the earliest stages possible.