Reuters, CHICAGOA Google artificial intelligence (AI) system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting women with breast cancer by screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the US and UK reported. The study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, is the latest to show that AI has the potential to improve the accuracy of screening for breast cancer, which affects one in eight women globally. In a separate test, the group pitted the AI system against six radiologists and found it outperformed them at accurately detecting breast cancers. Connie Lehman, head of the breast imaging department at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital, said the results were in line with findings from several groups using AI to improve cancer detection in mammograms, including her own work. The notion of using computers to improve cancer diagnostics is decades old and computer-aided detection (CAD) systems are commonplace in mammography clinics, yet CAD programs have not improved performance in clinical practice.

Source: Taipei Times January 02, 2020 15:56 UTC