AI shows promise for breast cancer screening, says QF researcher

Doha: Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are being developed and used to predict breast cancer in mammography scans with more accuracy than radiologists, thereby reducing false positives and false negatives. AI will become more common in breast cancer screening within the next ten years, said a Qatar Foundation (QF) researcher. "When using the naked eye to define abnormalities in image data or while analysing tissue, one could go wrong in the analysis. However, with artificial intelligence, classification of abnormal or normal tissue is more accurate," said Dr. Halima Bensmail, the Principal Scientist and Associate Professor at Qatar Computing Research Institute, part of QF's Hamad Bin Khalifa University. "Due to the extensive variation from patient to patient data, traditional learning methods are not reliable, and machine learning has evolved over the last few years with its ability to sift through complex and big data to be able to detect abnormalities," she told The Peninsula.