Artificial intelligence program aims to help doctors more accurately diagnose breast cancer

A team at Google has developed an artificial intelligence program aimed at helping doctors accurately detect cancer in mammograms. Thousands of women receive a false negative on their breast cancer tests each year, while one in 10 receive a false positive. Shravya Shetty, who heads the Google team developing the system, told CBS News' Jamie Yuccas that their AI model reduced false positives by almost 6% and false negatives by about 9%. Shetty also claimed that it caught suspicious tissues on mammograms missed by the human eye. Interventional radiologist Dr. Susan Drossman predicted that the AI program would be integrated into her and other doctors' work stations "probably within the next year."