AI Plus Mammograms Might Boost Breast Cancer Detection [Video]

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AI can help doctors better assess mammogramsAI-assisted mammography detected breast cancers more accuratelyFewer women had to return for a follow-up exam

TUESDAY, June 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve doctors’ assessments of mammograms, accurately detecting even the smallest breast cancers with fewer scary false positive readings, a new study shows.

AI-assisted mammography detected significantly more breast cancers, with a lower false-positive rate, than doctors assessing mammograms on their own, researchers reported June 4 in the journal Radiology.

Nearly 21% fewer women had to come back for a follow-up mammogram when AI helped doctors analyze breast imaging, researchers found.

“We believe AI has the potential to improve screening performance,” said researcher Andreas Lauritzen, a post-doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

For the study, researchers had human radiologists read the mammograms of nearly 61,000 Danish women ages 50 to 69 who were screened between October 2020 …