Google Uses AI System to Detect Cancer

Detecting cancer sooner rather than later can help prevent worst outcomes in many cases. Yet diagnosing different types of cancers in their earliest stages is not often possible. It requires years of training to gain the expertise and experience to do well in detecting cancerous tumor. Even with extensive training, some symptoms may be hard to distinguish from the signs of other similar diseases. For example, agreement in diagnosis for some forms of breast cancer can be as low as 48% and this percentage of disagreement is not surprising given the massive amount of information needed to review in order to make an accurate diagnoses and often within a limited time. To overcome these issues, Google researchers have developed an automated detection algorithm that is effective at identifying breast cancer.