Artificial Intelligence Could Help in Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Artificial intelligence may be just as good at detecting the spread of breast cancer as a specialist. The scientists were examining whether artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of computer algorithms could perform as well as a pathologist when detecting the spread of breast cancer to the lymph nodes in women with the disease. The researchers said they were stunned by what they found. "AI is increasingly being recognized as a major element of the healthcare landscape. We are now at a turning point where AI algorithms perform as well as or better than clinicians at specific tasks. But still, I did not expect such remarkable results at this early stage. We showed that state-of-the-art AI algorithms perform as well as or better than pathologists in detecting the spread of breast cancer to lymph nodes," Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, an author of the study, told Healthline.