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The Future of Breast Cancer Detection is Here (and AI Powers It).
The future of breast cancer detection is here (and AI powers it). What if we could detect breast cancer a year earlier?
That’s the tantalizing possibility raised by new research published in Academic Radiology.
Scientists have developed an AI algorithm that shows promise in identifying breast cancer on MRI scans up to 12 months sooner than current methods.
Could this be a game-changer in the fight against this prevalent disease?
As a radiation oncologist who is annually involved in the care of hundreds of patients with breast cancer, the news caught my eye.
The Promise of AI to Improve Cancer Detection
Researchers trained a convolutional neural network AI model using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans from 52,598 breasts.
To refine the model, they used a retrospective dataset of 3,029 MRI scans from 910 high-risk patients (ages 18 to 88; average 52), which included 115 cancers diagnosed within one year of a negative MRI.
