AI can detect breast cancer risk before humans. Why it may take hospitals a while to adopt the tech

Researchers are studying a machine learning-powered warning system for breast cancer. It works by detecting subtle changes in a mammogram that humans can’t spot, but could soon become cancer.

Source: AI can detect breast cancer risk before humans. Why it may take hospitals a while to adopt the tech


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They tested Barzilay’s Mirai technology on 65,000 patients who get regular mammograms at UMass Memorial Health. The AI found that 4,000 were at high risk for developing cancer, even though doctors hadn’t noticed any suspicious signs in their mammograms.  

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