Breast Imaging 2027, Featuring AI
March 14–17, 2027 · Mexico City · Grand Fiesta Americana Chapultepec
Course Director: Dr. Michael N. Linver
CME for physicians
ARRT CE for technologists
BI-RADS v2025
AI-assisted interpretation
ACR’s first substantial revision in twelve years. New descriptors across mammography, ultrasound, and MRI, contrast-enhanced mammography as its own section, and over 900 new clinical images. Every breast imager has to relearn how they report.
AI-assisted interpretation is now in reading rooms rather than in pilots. This program covers what the tools actually do to a breast imaging workflow — validation, integration, and where they change a decision.
Overview
In 2025, ACR published the first substantial revision to BI-RADS in twelve years. At the same time, AI-assisted interpretation moved from pilot projects into routine practice. Breast imagers are now absorbing both changes at once — a new reporting lexicon and a new set of tools sitting alongside them in the workflow.
This four-day program in Mexico City is built around exactly that. Led by Course Director Dr. Michael N. Linver, who has taught breast imaging at this level for thirty years, with faculty spanning the ACR commission that authored the new lexicon, academic AI leadership, and Latin American breast imaging practice.
Who should attend
Radiologists and breast imaging fellows who report using BI-RADS and need to work fluently inside the 2025 revision — and who expect to be reading alongside AI tools within the next year or two. Mammography technologists attend for ARRT CE credit.
Learning objectives
Learning Objectives subject to change
The objectives below are subject to change. Session-level objectives are authored by the presenting faculty and reviewed by the accrediting provider before publication.
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Apply the ACR BI-RADS® v2025 updates in clinical mammography and breast MRI reporting, and identify the lexicon and assessment changes that differ from the prior edition.
- Interpret digital breast tomosynthesis in both the screening and the diagnostic patient, and describe contrast-enhanced mammography implementation in a working practice.
- Interpret breast MRI using the current BI-RADS lexicon, and distinguish its role in screening from its role in diagnostic problem solving.
- Select and perform image-guided breast intervention appropriate to the lesion, including ultrasound-guided and tomosynthesis-guided needle biopsy.
- Describe the current state of artificial intelligence in breast imaging — from detection through future risk prediction — and recognize how bias in these systems presents at the workstation.
- Recognize the characteristic patterns of the missed mammographic lesion and describe the search behaviours that reduce them.
- Evaluate supplemental and high-risk screening options, including 3D automated breast ultrasound and molecular breast imaging, and communicate findings and recommendations effectively to patients.
Program
Four mornings, 14–17 March 2027. Each day starts at 8:00 am (7:45 am on Day 1, for the introduction) and closes at 1:00 pm — 1:30 pm on the final day, for the Spanish-language bonus session — with a mid-morning break and a closing faculty panel and Q&A built in, so the afternoons stay clear.
Agenda subject to change
The schedule below reflects the finalized four-day programme, per the Program Director's schedule. 17.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are anticipated for the English-language programme, with an additional 1.00 credit hour for the Spanish-language bonus session — 18.50 in total, pending accreditation. Technologists earn ARRT Category A CE.
Day 1 · Sunday 14 March — Screening, Tomosynthesis & AI in Practice
Day 2 · Monday 15 March — BI-RADS v2025, MRI Lexicon & the State of AI
Day 3 · Tuesday 16 March — Breast MRI, Contrast-Enhanced Mammography & the Missed Lesion
Day 4 · Wednesday 17 March — Intervention, Molecular Imaging & Talking with Patients
Faculty
Program Director
Founder of Mammography in Santa Fe, which he established in 1996 and led for thirty consecutive years. Director Emeritus of the Breast Imaging Center at X-Ray Associates of New Mexico, Clinical Professor of Radiology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Radiology at George Washington University School of Medicine. One of the Collective's founding physicians, and among the most experienced breast imaging educators in the country.
Course Faculty
Chair of the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Commission — the body that authored BI-RADS v2025 — and Chair of the ACR Breast MRI Accreditation Committee. She also sits on the ACR Board of Chancellors and serves as Secretary of the Society of Breast Imaging Board of Directors. Managing Partner at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care in Rochester, New York, and Clinical Professor at the University of Rochester.
Course Faculty
Chairs the ACR BI-RADS Breast MRI subcommittee — the group behind the MRI portion of the v2025 revision — and teaches that lexicon herself across the program's four-lecture MRI sequence. Past President of the Society of Breast Imaging and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Breast Imaging. Clinical Professor, Affiliate Faculty in the Breast Imaging Division at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Course Faculty
Professor of Radiology and Director of Innovation and AI at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Medical Director of the Breast Health Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. His research applies machine learning to mammography and breast MRI.
Course Faculty
Breast imaging specialist and Medical Director of CERIM in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Spanish-language advisor to DenseBreast-info.org, bringing a Latin American practice perspective to the host region.
Mexico City & the venue
Four focused days at the Grand Fiesta Americana Chapultepec, structured so the time away produces a measurable return on a schedule that has none to spare.
Mexico City also puts the program within reach of colleagues across Latin America — reflected in a faculty that teaches on both sides of that divide.
The Grand Fiesta Americana Chapultepec, on the edge of the Bosque de Chapultepec and a Forbes Travel Guide award recipient. Rooms are $195.00 per night plus local taxes, with the block covering March 14–22, 2027 to accommodate both March Mexico City programs, so one booking works whether you’re attending one or both. Booking details are published closer to the event.
Afternoons in Mexico City
Sessions conclude at midday, and the afternoon is yours. Four prospective activities are planned alongside the program, chosen so that a few days in Mexico City can take in the city’s great park, its colonial and Mexica core, the largest ancient city in the Americas, and a round of golf — without ever competing with the academic sessions. All are optional and carry their own costs, separate from conference registration.
Chapultepec Castle — the only castle in the Americas to have housed reigning sovereigns.
© ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The National Museum of Anthropology — “El Paraguas” in the courtyard.
© Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0
The lake in the first section of the Bosque de Chapultepec.
© Bohao Zhao, CC BY 3.0
The Zócalo — laid directly over the ceremonial centre of Tenochtitlán.
© ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Templo Mayor — the Mexica great temple, excavated alongside the colonial city.
© José Luiz, CC BY-SA 4.0
Catedral Metropolitana — two and a half centuries of building on a sinking lakebed.
© ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Torre Latinoamericana — 45 storeys, and an open deck on the 44th.
© Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 4.0
Teotihuacán — the Pyramid of the Sun and the Avenue of the Dead.
© Arian Zwegers, CC BY 2.0
Photographs of Mexico City are reproduced from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons licences credited above. El Copal Club de Golf is not pictured: no freely licensed photograph of the club exists.
The activities below are set: which one runs on which afternoon appears against each day below. Departure times and booking details are confirmed and published closer to the event.
Most afternoons depart around 1:45 pm, following the close of the morning program, except the final day, when the course itself runs until 1:30 pm.
Participation is optional and à la carte, at additional cost: join one, join several, or none, and guests and family members are welcome on every activity. Coach groups depart from the hotel entrance; walking groups leave from the lobby.
The afternoon programme is not included in the $1,595 conference registration, which covers the academic programme, credit and your 12-month Collective Membership. Each activity is priced separately and paid by the attendee, and guests and family members pay the same rates. The three ticketed sites come to roughly 520 MXN in total — about US$28 at August 2026 rates — plus the Torre Latinoamericana ticket and any cathedral donation. Golf is separate and higher once the green fee, cart and caddie are counted. Budget for pesos in cash: card acceptance at museum gates is inconsistent.
Full excursion outside the city · demanding walking
The largest city in the Americas long before the Mexica arrived — and large enough that they treated the ruins as sacred ground and gave the place the name we still use, “where the gods were created.” Who built it remains unsettled. What survives is the scale: a four-kilometre axis with the Pyramid of the Sun on one flank, the Pyramid of the Moon closing the north end, and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at the south, laid out on a grid roughly 1,600 years old.
The longest option and the only one that leaves the city: 50 km northeast, 60–90 minutes each way. Demanding walking — a 4 km axis with no shade and full sun at 2,300 m. 210 MXN for foreign visitors, 105 MXN for Mexican nationals. An afternoon allows one coherent route rather than the whole city.
Open every day, including holidays, and the site closes at 5:00 pm. Climbing the pyramids has been permanently prohibited since 2024 for conservation reasons — the staircases are viewed from the ground.
Park, castle & national museum · moderate walking
A forest with an empire’s worth of history stacked inside. The hill was a Mexica retreat before it was a military academy, and the castle at the top is the only one in the Americas to have housed reigning sovereigns — Maximilian and Carlota, whose apartments still hold their furniture. From the ramparts the whole valley and the Paseo de la Reforma line up in one view. At the foot of the same park, the National Museum of Anthropology holds the Sun Stone, the Olmec heads and the Maya jades. The two are an either-or, not an add-on.
Moderate walking, 2–3 km, including a 15-minute climb to the castle (a tram runs the hill for 15–20 MXN). Castle 210 MXN or museum 95 MXN. Last castle entry is 4:30 pm and no bags are allowed inside — free lockers sit at the base of the hill.
The castle and the Anthropology Museum are both closed on Mondays. The castle sits on an exposed hilltop and can close for lightning, in which case the museum is the wet-weather substitution.
Four landmarks on foot · easy to moderate walking
The densest option and the most compact: four landmarks and three civilizations, all within a few blocks. The Templo Mayor — the Mexica great temple, buried under the colonial city and only rediscovered in 1978 when electrical workers struck the Coyolxauhqui monolith. The Catedral Metropolitana, built over two and a half centuries on the sinking lakebed, where the tilt in the floor is the same subsidence the city still fights. And the 44th-floor deck of the Torre Latinoamericana, which rode out the 1985 earthquake intact when newer buildings did not.
Easy to moderate walking, about 2 km. Templo Mayor 100 MXN; the cathedral is free with a 20–50 MXN donation; the tower is ticketed on site. Smart casual — the cathedral enforces no shorts and no sleeveless tops.
Templo Mayor is closed Mondays and closes at 5:00 pm; the tower stays open to 10:00 pm. Midweek is consistently quieter than the weekend. Worth doing in order — ruins, then cathedral, then tower, so the tower catches the late light.
Nine holes · 30–45 minutes from the centre
A nine-hole, par-70 layout on the northern edge of the metropolitan area — close enough to reach after a closing session, long enough at just under 6,000 yards to be a real round, and open to visiting players without a member sponsor. Caddies are available and worth taking; the greens read differently than they look. For anyone who does not play, the practice range and the clubhouse restaurant are open to the group.
Juan Ixhuatepec, Tlalnepantla. Nine holes, par 70, 5,982 yards from the white tees and 4,876 from the red, Bermuda greens and Kikuyu fairways. Nine holes plays in about two hours against a 4:30 pm course close. Collared shirt and golf shoes.
Green fees depend on the day and the tee time: 800–1,200 MXN on a weekday, 1,550 MXN at weekends and on holidays, with an afternoon start priced above the standard weekday nine-hole rate. Cart 450 MXN, caddie 300–450 MXN. A negotiated group rate is part of the booking conversation.
Altitude. The city sits at roughly 2,240 m (7,350 ft). Expect to feel the first day’s walking more than you would at home: drink more water than usual, go easy on alcohol the first evening, and pace the uphill sections. Sun and rain in one afternoon. Afternoons run bright and hot until a short, heavy shower arrives; sunscreen, a hat and a packable rain shell cover both. Cash. Admissions, the Chapultepec tram, cathedral donations, caddies and tips are simplest in pesos — card acceptance at museum gates is inconsistent. Shoes. Every activity except golf involves 2–5 km on uneven stone, cobble or volcanic rock. Closed walking shoes, not sandals.
These activities are social and recreational. They carry no CME credit, sit entirely outside the certified education, and are not funded by commercial support. Each is scheduled strictly after the day’s final session, which keeps that separation clean.
Which activity runs on which afternoon, departure and return times, and the booking arrangements. Peso amounts are the rates published in August 2026 and are reconfirmed before registration opens. Also to come: whether these fees are collected with registration or paid on site, group transport and bilingual guides for Teotihuacán and the Templo Mayor, and an accessible alternative for each activity — the castle hill, the Teotihuacán axis and the Templo Mayor walkways are all difficult for attendees with limited mobility.
Program sponsors
We are grateful to our program sponsors for their support of this educational activity. Their contributions help make possible the hands-on, case-based learning experience that defines this course, including access to advanced imaging workstations and technologies used in clinical practice.
Attending both March programs?
Eight days, two accredited courses, one flight, one hotel. ER Radiology runs March 18–21 at the same venue, starting the day after this program ends. Your Collective Membership covers recorded access to both either way.
Common questions
Live attendance at Breast Imaging 2027 with full credit, plus a 12-month Altus Radiology Collective Membership — recorded access to every other 2027 conference, the digital library, community features, and credit tracking.
Yes. This program is accredited for both physician CME and technologist ARRT CE, so a radiologist and the technologists they work with can attend together and each claim the credit that applies to their role.
Credit amounts are confirmed ahead of the program and published here once finalized.
Registration invoices as accredited continuing education conference registration — the category most hospital CME offices already recognize. Institutional travel approval typically needs about six months of lead time, so for a March 2027 program that conversation belongs in autumn 2026.
No. The AI content is aimed at practising breast imagers evaluating or beginning to use these tools, not at informaticists. It covers what the tools do to a reading workflow rather than how they are built.
The All-Access Pass gives you the same 12-month membership and recorded access to all six 2027 programs without live attendance.
March 14–17, 2027 · Mexico City
- Live attendance, full credit
- 12-month Collective Membership
- Access to all six 2027 programs
- Digital library & community
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Breast imagers need 15 Category I mammography credits every 36 months. This program is designed around that requirement.
ER Radiology Program, March 18–21, 2027 — same venue, starting the day after this program ends.
Four days in Mexico City. A year of access.
Registration is $1,595 and includes a full 12-month Collective Membership.