The UK's first comprehensive evaluation of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in breast cancer screening found that it can increase breast cancer detection by 10.4% and has the potential to reduce the workload of health care workers by more than 30% compared to the current clinical process.
The team assessed how an AI software tool, Mia, developed by Kheiron, could be used to support health care workers in the routine breast screening of 10,889 women in NHS Grampian.
The study found that not only did AI help detect more cancers, most of which were invasive and high grade, it could also reduce the time to notify affected women from 14 days to just three days.
The researchers also found that using AI as part of the large-scale screening program could reduce the number of women recalled unnecessarily for further assessment, including unnecessary biopsies.
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