Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is a technology that makes it possible for computers and other devices to mimic human intelligence and problem-solving skills.
Hungarian physicians are using an AI model that can detect breast cancer four years before it develops.
The procedure is called computer-assisted detection, the AI identifies spots in mammograms for doctors to inspect closely.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT study found the technology was able to identify changes between mammograms and detect spots that were at risk of developing into cancer. The spots went on to develop into breast cancer years later.
Information obtained from more than 90,000 mammograms at Massachusetts General Hospital by a team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has developed a deep-learning model that detects subtle patterns of change that the human eye is unable to detect.
Programmed using mammograms and known outcomes from 60,000 patients, the model identifies precursors to malignant tumors and can predict from a mammogram if a patient is likely to develop cancer.
