Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer, and roughly one in eight women in the U.S. are likely to develop breast cancer throughout their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. And sometimes mammograms are flagged for women who don't have breast cancer or whose cancer is generally harmless, leading to extra testing or unnecessary treatment. Whether a woman had breast cancer was previously determined, and researchers told the algorithm which cases had confirmed breast cancer. The AI system outperformed the average radiologist in determining whether the women would develop breast cancer. While the AI system caught cancers that the radiologists missed, the radiologists in both the U.K. and the U.S. caught cancers that the AI system missed.

Source: Bangkok Post January 03, 2020 01:42 UTC