Experimental Computer-aided Detection of Osteoblastic and Osteolytic Metastases in MSCT of the Spine: Type I Error in the OLYMP CT Mamma Study

Zielsetzung: Staging examinations in patients with metastatic disease are frequently carried out as MSCT examinations. The detection of bone metastasis can be challenging in everyday radiology, as incidence is comparatively low across many malignant diseases and not every patient receives bone scintigraphy. We evaluated diagnostic performance of a prototype CAD. Material und Methodik: 53 patients with breast cancer underwent thin-slice MSCT. Informed consent was waived by the local ethics committee. Examinations were evaluated by two radiologists (3 years experience in multimodal spine imaging) for vertebral met…