New Google AI tool detects breast cancer better than radiologists, study suggests

Fox Business's Susan Li told Stuart Varney that data from Google Health's new breast cancer study, while positive, needs more development. A new Google artificial intelligence model appears capable of more accurately spotting breast cancer in mammograms than radiologists. In a study published in the scientific journal Nature, researchers from Google Health, Northwestern University and three British medical institutions wrote in their abstract that they had aimed to "identify breast cancer before symptoms appear, enabling earlier therapy for [a] more treatable disease." "Despite the existence of screening programs worldwide, interpretation of these images suffers from suboptimal rates of false positives and false negatives," they continued. "Here we present an AI system capable of surpassing a single expert reader in breast cancer prediction performance."