| Summary: | Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and most of the cases in
Indonesia is found in an advanced stage that has a bad prognosis. One of primary imaging
method for early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer is using of mammography.
However, remember the breadth of the country of Indonesia is made up of thousands of
island, so this greatly affects the health service. Major problems faced goverments is
limited resource that is still the least amount of radiologist, these conditions hamper
theassessment of radiological imaging result, resulting in late diagnosis and lack of
accuracy of the diagnosis of patients. Various maodalities can be used to remove thesse
barriers through a teleradiology.
This study aims to compare the hard copy image quality of mammography
(conventional film) with the result of image digitizer and compare the results of soft copy
mammography from computed radiography , image digitizer and a pocket camera. The
subjects of this study is the result of mammography images. The study is expected to be
developed towards the use of teleradiology systems across Indonesia. This research is
experimental, assessment of the quality of mammography images performed by the
method of single blinded.
Kappa index 0,86 obtained in hard copy image quality assessment of laser
printers with a digitizer. In the assessement of specific criteria digitizer obtained moderate
to good value, there are significant differences in image quality between hard copy with
the digitizer. Kappa index gained 0,90 on the soft copy image quality assessment with
computed radiography mammography digitizer result, the assessment of general and
specific criteria obtained in moderate to very good result, there are significant differences
in soft copy image quality assessment with computed radiography digitizer. While the
assessment of image quality computed radiography soft copy with pocket cameras kappa
index gained 0,13 eamed substantial conformity poor to moderate, the assessment of
general and specific criteria derived less value to excellent with a significant difference.
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