New research on 175,000 women—the largest NHS study to date—on the use of AI in breast cancer screening shows that AI detected more cases of invasive cancer, more cases overall, had fewer false positives, and recalled fewer women having their first scan than humans did.
For one part of the study, AI reduced the time spent reading scans by almost a third.
This research looked at how two human readers compared to one human reader plus one AI reader, using AI software developed by Google.
The findings are published in two linked papers out today in Nature Cancer.
This study provides good evidence for the potential use of AI in the real world of screening mammography, where staffing is particularly difficult.
Its introduction could provide support for the successful NHS breast screening program, reducing breast cancer mortality.
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