You Might Want Artificial Intelligence Reading Your Next Mammogram

These are perhaps the most powerful and important four words a woman can hear after a breast-screening visit. X-ray based mammography is an effective screening tool for detecting cancer, but what many women may not know is that breast screening programs produce a high level of false positive results, particularly after multiple years of screening. In other words, women are informed they may have cancer when in fact they don't. This is particularly true in the U.S., where each study is generally read by a single, expert radiologist. In Europe, two independent radiologists read each study.