Study Finds Google AI System Could Improve Breast Cancer Detection

Study Finds Google AI System Could Improve Breast Cancer Detection
A person looks on as breast cancer patient runs through a CT scan at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, California, on Aug. 17, 2005. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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CHICAGO—A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported.

The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, is the latest to show that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve the accuracy of screening for breast cancer, which affects one in eight women globally.