Applying machine learning to mammography screening for breast cancer DeepMind

We founded DeepMind Health to develop technologies that could help address some of society's toughest challenges. So we're very excited to announce that our latest research partnership will focus on breast cancer. We'll be working with a group of leading research institutions, led by the Cancer Research UK Centre at Imperial College London, and alongside the AI health research team at Google, to determine if cutting-edge machine learning technology could help improve the detection of breast cancer. Breast cancer is a significant global health problem. Every single year, over 1.6 million people are diagnosed with the disease, and while advances in early detection and treatment have improved survival rates, breast cancer still claims the lives of 500,000 people around the world every year, around 11,000 of whom are here in the UK.