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Mammography Screening With Artificial Intelligence (MASAI)

Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Breast Cancer
Interventions
Other: Conventional screening modality
Other: AI screening modality
Registration Number
NCT04838756
Lead Sponsor
Region Skane
Brief Summary

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to assess whether AI can improve the efficacy of mammography screening, by adapting single and double reading based on AI derived cancer-risk scores and to use AI as a decision support in the screen reading, compared with conventional mammography screening (double reading without AI).

Detailed Description

European guidelines recommend that mammography exams in breast cancer screening are read by two breast radiologists to ensure a high sensitivity. Double reading is, however, resource demanding and still results in missed cancers. Computer-aided detection based on AI has been shown to have similar accuracy as an average breast radiologist. AI can be used as decision support by highlighting suspicious findings in the image as well as a means to triage screen exams according to risk of malignancy.

Eligible women will be randomized (1:1) to the intervention (AI-integrated mammography screening) or control arm (conventional mammography screening). In the intervention arm, exams will be analysed with AI and triaged into two groups based on risk of malignancy. Low risk exams will be single read and high risk exams will be double read. The high risk group will contain appx. 10% of the screening population. Within the high-risk group, exams with the highest 1% risk will by default be recalled by the readers with the exception of obvious false positives. AI risk scores and Computer-Aided Detection (CAD)-marks of suspicious calcifications and masses are provided to the reader(s). In the control arm, screen exams are double read without AI (standard of care). Considering the interplay of number of interval cancers and workload, the study will be considered successful if the interval-cancer rate in the intervention arm is not more than 20% larger than in the control arm. If the interval-cancer rate is statistically and clinically significantly lower in the intervention arm than in the control arm, AI-integrated mammography screening will be considered superior to conventional mammography screening.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
100000
Inclusion Criteria

Women eligible for population-based mammography screening.

Exclusion Criteria

None.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Control armConventional screening modalityConventional mammography screening (standard of care)
Intervention armAI screening modalityAI-integrated mammography screening
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Interval-cancer rate43 months

Women with interval cancer per 1000 screens

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Tumour biology of interval cancers43 months

Characterization of interval cancers per type, size and stage

Screen-reading workload19 months

Number of screen-readings and number of consensus meetings

Positive Predictive Value-115 months

Women with cancer for all recalls

Recall rate15 months

Number of recalls per 1000 screens

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio43 months

The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for AI-integrated mammography screening versus standard of care

Cancer-detection rate15 months

Women with screen-detected cancer per 1000 screens

Cancer detection per cancer type19 months

Screen detection of cancer in relation to cancer type, size and stage

False-positive rate15 months

Women with false positive per 1000 screens

Sensitivity and specificity43 months

True and false-positive rate

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Mammography Unit, Unilabs/Skane University Hospital

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Malmö, Skane, Sweden

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