Preface

Chapter 7 **Initial Clinical Evaluation of Observer Performance Using a**

Chapter 8 **Diagnostic System in Electrical Impedance Mammography:**

Chapter 9 **An Innovative Concept of 3D X-Ray Imaging Systems for Painless Breast Cancer Detection 155**

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**Background 137**

Mohammed Ali Alnafea

**Tablet Computer with a 4K High-Resolution Display for Detection of Breast Cancer by Digital Mammography 125** Ryusuke Murakami, Nachiko Uchiyama, Hitomi Tani and Shinichiro

Alexander Karpov, Andrey Kolobanov and Marina Korotkova

Breast cancer is the most widely recognized obtrusive disease in females and the second in number among lethal cancers, after lung tumor. Early detection of this cancer can have a very good prognosis and quality of life. As the familiarity with the malignancy has become rife among ladies, increasing use of screening programs has turned out to be broadly ac‐ knowledged as a vital piece of women health. It is a well-established fact that an early recog‐ nition of disease or precancerous lesions can diminish morbidity and mortality, mental health, and financial trauma to the individual and society. There is a global concern now in providing superb screening and analytic facilities to ladies who are underserved and do not have an easy access to such facilities. A number of modalities to diagnose this cancer are in practice. Mammography is the most common tool for this purpose but has a low sensitivity. On the other hand, the utilization of ultrasound for breast tumor screening acquires a high rate of false-negative outcomes, especially in ladies with dense breast tissue. Therefore, Ul‐ trasound is by and large utilized as a supplement to mammography amid screening to en‐ hance identification, particularly for ladies with dense breasts.

This book is focused to the latest radiological concepts to make it possible to save more and more lives by way of early detection and treatment of the cancer while it is at its very early stages. There are many high-quality contributions from most eminent scientists all around. I hope this book will benefit both the practicing surgeons and residents of surgery and radiol‐ ogy and will definitely bring a phenomenal change in the outlook of breast cancer patients.

> **Dr. Arshad M. Malik** College of Medicine, Department of Surgery Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

**Provisional chapter**
