AI could halve time reading breast cancer scans, study suggests

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Artificial intelligence could help almost halve the workload of radiologists. ECRNewsWatch AI

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With many countries suffering from a shortage of radiologists, there are hopes that AI could make the time-consuming job of analysing routine scans quicker and more accurate. The study in Sweden involved the scans of 80,000 women who had mammograms at four sites in southwest Sweden between April 2021 and July last year.Their scans were randomly divided for analysis to either an AI-supported system or two human radiologists, who served as the control group.

When it came to false positives -- when a mammogram is first thought to look suspicious but is later cleared -- both the AI-supported system and the two humans spotted the same rate: 1.5 percent. But Lang said the "promising interim safety results" were"not enough on their own to confirm that AI is ready to be implemented in mammography screening," she said in a statement.

 

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