Feature story
AI ‘outperforms’ doctors diagnosing breast cancer
THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2020 (BBC)—Artificial intelligence is more accurate than doctors in diagnosing breast cancer from mammograms, a study in the journal Nature suggests.
An international team, including researchers from Google Health and Imperial College London, designed and trained a computer model on X-ray images from nearly 29,000 women.
The algorithm outperformed six radiologists in reading mammograms.
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