Google's AI is now detecting cancer with Deep Learning

A pathologist's report after reviewing a patient's biological tissue samples is often the gold standard in the diagnosis of many diseases. For cancer in particular, a pathologist's diagnosis has a profound impact on a patient's therapy. The reviewing of pathology slides is a very complex task, requiring years of training to gain the expertise and experience to do well. Even with this extensive training, there can be substantial variability in the diagnoses given by different pathologists for the same patient, which can lead to misdiagnoses. For example, agreement in diagnosis for some forms of breast cancer can be as low as 48 per cent, and similarly low for prostate cancer.