Google A.I. Can Detect Breast Cancer More Accurately Than Doctors Can Digital Trends

Google's artificial intelligence technology is able to spot signs of breast cancer in women with more accuracy than doctors, according to a new study. The study, published on Wednesday, January 1, in the scientific journal Nature, found that by using A.I. technology, there was a reduction in false positives and false negatives when it came to diagnosing forms of breast cancer. A.I. technology was used to look the mammograms from more than 15,000 women in the United States, and over 76,000 women in the United Kingdom. The program was able to reduce false positive by 5.7% for women in the U.S. and 1.2% for those in the U.K. False negatives were reduced 9.4% in the U.S. and by 2.7% in the U.K. The advanced A.I. system proved to be more accurate than human experts with knowledge of a patient's history, even if doctors did a second reading of mammogram results, according to the study. "The performance of even the best clinicians leaves room for improvement," the study reads.