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This appeared a few days ago.Google AI system beats doctors in detection tests for breast cancerHannah KuchlerJan 2, 2020 — 3.19pmNew York | Google Health has developed a system that can identify breast cancer more accurately than radiologists, in the latest sign that artificial intelligence could improve early detection of disease in images.In a paper published in the scientific journal Nature, experts from Google H ealth, Alphabet’s DeepMind unit, and UK and US universities showed the AI model reduced both false positives, in which patients are wrongly told they have cancer, as well as false negatives, where the disease is present but not diagnosed.Screening mammograms is known to be imperfect, failing to de tect about one in five breast cancers, according to the American Cancer Society. More than half of all women are given a false positive every 10 years, causing anxiety and leading to unnecessary treatment, which was estimated in a 2015 study in the journal Health Affairs to cost... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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