Friday, 3 January 2020

AI detects breast cancer as accurately as expert radiologists, study finds

Researchers in the United States and Britain recently reported that Google DeepMind, an artificial intelligence (AI) system, "proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors."  According to the American Cancer Society, radiologists miss about 20% of breast cancers in mammograms; Google Deep Mind can reduce false positive results by 5.7%.

To read more about this study, click here.

Study mentioned: McKinney SM, Sieniek M, Godble V, Godwin J, Antropova H, Back T, et al. International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening.  Nature, 2020 Jan; 577 (7788): 89-94.

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