Annonymous scans of 29,000 women were used in the trial.
The biggest improvements over human scanning was found in the U.S. portion of the study.A woman undergoes a mammogram exam.Artificial Intelligence powered by Google's DeepMind algorithm may be more accurate at spotting breast cancer than real life doctors.on Wednesday, come after researchers from Imperial College London and Google Health "trained" a computer to spot abnormalities on X-ray images of nearly 29,000 women.
In the United States, the improvement was more noticeable — offering a reported reduction of 5.7% in false positives, where a mammogram is wrongly diagnosed as abnormal."In an independent study of six radiologists, the AI system outperformed all of the human readers," claimed the report.
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