AI Outperforms Experts in Identifying Cervical Precancer

The image above has been cropped. Could cervical cancer be brought under control? Not quite, but the results of a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute seem promising. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Global Good have developed a deep learning algorithm that can analyze digital images of a woman's cervix and identify precancerous changes that require medical attention -- with more accuracy than human experts. The team used comprehensive datasets to train the algorithm to recognize patterns in complex visual inputs, like medical images.