Artificial intelligence beats doctors in breast cancer diagnosis

AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE programme has been developed which can detect breast cancer from mammograms better than experts, a study found. A new study has found that an AI system developed by Google Health can identify cancer in breast screening mammograms with fewer false positives, and fewer false negatives than radiologists. The programme was developed in collaboration with DeepMind, Cancer Research UK Imperial Centre, Northwestern University, and Royal Surrey County Hospital. Researchers said that the AI model was trained and tuned on anonymised mammograms from more than 76,000 women in the UK and more than 15,000 women in the US to see if it could learn to spot signs of breast cancer. It was then tested on a separate data selection of more than 25,000 women in the UK and over 3,000 women in the US.