AI can help save lives by detecting more breast cancers: study [Video]

By Stephen Beech via SWNS

Robot technology can save lives by detecting more breast cancers, suggests new research.

Radiologists improved breast cancer screening performance and reduced the rate of false-positive findings by using artificial intelligence (AI).

Current mammography techniques successfully reduce deaths from breast cancer but also carry the risk of false-positive findings.

Danish scientists have been studying the use of AI systems in screening compared to current methods with the results published in the journal Radiology.

Dr Andreas Lauritzen, of the University of Copenhagen, said: “We believe AI has the potential to improve screening performance.”

When used to triage likely normal screening results or assist with decision support, he said AI also can substantially reduce radiologist workload.

Dr. Lauritzen, who is also a researcher at Gentofte Hospital in Hellerup, Denmark, said: “Population-based screening with mammography reduces breast cancer mortality, but it places a substantial workload on radiologists who must read a large number of …