History of computer-aided detection (CAD)

This is a printout of a Xeroradiograph, showing a lesion with defining circle; by L.V. Ackerman and E.E. Gose, 1972.
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In 1998, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first commercial CAD system for mammography screening.
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For the analysis of 2D images, Siemens Healthineers introduced syngo MammoCAD to the market in 2007.

Today, computer-aided detection tools are widely used, for example, in reading of breast, lung, colon, neurological, and musculoskeletal images.

In 2018, the CE approval was given to iCAD and…
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…ScreenPoint Medical for their multivendor 3D solutions. FDA approval is expected by the end of the year.
^{Source image: www.screenpoint-medical.com/digital-breast-tomosynthesis}