Google's DeepMind created an AI for spotting breast cancer that can outperform human radiologists

Google Health and DeepMind have created an AI tool capable of spotting breast cancer with as much accuracy as a human radiologist, according to a new paper published in Nature on Wednesday. To train the model the researchers used two data sets of breast scans from the UK and the US. The UK dataset included scans from 25,856 women, while the US set contained mammograms from 3,097 women. Applying the AI resulted in a reduction of false negatives of 9.4% for the US dataset and 2.7% for the UK. There was a slightly smaller reduction for false positives, 5.7% for the US dataset and 1.2% for the UK one.