About 40 million mammograms are performed in the United States each year. While breast artery calcifications can be seen on the resulting images, radiologists do not typically quantify or report ...

About 40 million mammograms are performed in the United States each year. While breast artery calcifications can be seen on the resulting images, radiologists do not typically quantify or report ...

Mammogram scans also can be used to screen for heart health The X-rays can see calcium deposits in arteries within breast tissue Women with more calcified arteries have a higher risk of heart ...

About 40 million mammograms are performed in the United States each year. While breast artery calcifications can be seen on the resulting images, radiologists do not typically quantify or report ...

Around 40 million mammograms are performed in the U.S. each year, and breast artery calcifications can be seen on the resulting images, showing up as bright pixels on the X-rays, researchers noted.

Automated deep learning-based quantification of breast arterial calcification (BAC) on routine screening mammograms may allow for opportunistic screening for cardiovascular disease events and death in ...

“Before what we would do is we would go around in a circle and we would get the mammograms afterward and say, ‘oh, I think we got those micro calcifications,” said Buckner. “Then we would have to take ...