Averi E. Kitsch

TL;DR: Technical innovations are helping to overcome many of the image quality issues that have limited widespread use of DWI for breast imaging and advanced modeling approaches to further characterize tissue perfusion, complexity, and glandular organization may expand knowledge and yield improved diagnostic tools.

TL;DR: DWI can reclassify a substantial fraction of suspicious breast MRI findings as benign and thereby decrease unnecessary biopsies and ADC thresholds identified in this trial should be validated in future phase III studies.

TL;DR: Two new approaches demonstrate improved accuracy in the automated labeling of cortical gray matter, white matter, ventricles and sulcal cortical-spinal fluid regions, while maintaining comparable results in deep gray matter.

TL;DR: Quantitative lesion and normal breast tissue characteristics at preoperative MR imaging in women with newly diagnosed DCIS show promise for association with breast cancer recurrence after treatment.

TL;DR: To determine whether alternate calculations of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) can help further improve diagnostic performance versus mean ADC values alone for analysis of suspicious breast lesions at MRI, a prospective trial enrolled consecutive women with a Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System category of 3, 4, or 5 at breast MRI.