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AI could soon detect breast cancer in scans
The results of a new Swedish study have suggested that AI technology could be used to lighten or even halve the workload of radiologists who work in twos to read breast scans for signs of cancer. Around 80,000 scans were split between an AI system and two human experts to see the rates at which both groups accurately predicted the cancer risk. The AI system saw more cancers than the human control group, while the rates of false positives were around equal for each group.
