Using artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening is safe and could almost halve the workload of radiologists, according to the world's most comprehensive study of its kind.
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer globally, according to the World Health Organization; more than 2.3 million women develop this disease each year.
Screening can improve prognosis and reduce mortality by detecting breast cancer at an earlier and more treatable stage. Preliminary results from a large study suggest that AI screening is as good as two radiologists working together, does not increase false positives and almost halves the workload.
The results of the interim analysis of the study, which included more than 80,000 women, were published in the journal Lancet Oncology .
The study has been evaluated by experts as very positive and they are of the opinion that artificial intelligence can help speed up diagnosis in women to detect cancer at an early stage and save more lives.
