New Study Shows How AI Can Help Detect Breast Cancer

Can artificial intelligence (AI) help detect breast cancer? A new study out of Sweden has tentatively said: yes.

The study enrolled over 80,000 women in a clinical trial to ask this question. All 80,033 underwent mammography. Half of those mammograms were interpreted the standard way in Sweden, which is by two physicians. The other half had their mammograms read by a physician (or two physicians) who had an AI-supported analysis.

What’s an “AI-supported analysis?” That’s when the AI system…