New AI Delivers More Accurate Breast Cancer Diagnoses Than Human Doctors

"It is critical to get a correct diagnosis from the beginning so that we can guide patients to the most effective treatments," said Dr. Joann Elmore, the study's senior author and a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Why would there be a need for such a study? Well, because, according to a 2015 study led by Elmore, pathologists often disagree on the outcome of breast biopsies. Furthermore, research has also found that diagnostic errors occurred in about one out of every six women who had ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and incorrect diagnoses were given in about half of the biopsy cases of breast atypia. These are quite some significant errors.