ch4m3le0n t1_jb4b4ia wrote on March 6, 2023 at 9:20 AM

Reply to comment by hvgotcodes in Artificial intelligence could soon be widely used to detect breast cancer — and may be more effective than doctors at doing so, study says by Gari_305

Spoiler, it's not any more accurate than a rookie radiologist.

DragonflyGrrl t1_jb6h4kl wrote on March 6, 2023 at 8:14 PM

>Another [doctor] told the Times he was shocked at how effective the AI programs were after he presented the software with some of the most difficult cases of his career — including instances in which other radiologists had missed signs of cancer in a scan — and the program correctly identified the cancer every time.

ch4m3le0n t1_jb9262z wrote on March 7, 2023 at 10:03 AM

This is purely anecdotal on the doctors behalf. There are companies like Annalise.ai which are using hundreds of radiologists to train models for just one type of cancer, and the best they can do is sanity check, so far. This is likely one of those cases. There is a role for AI in this process, but it still requires a radiologist to interpret.

The bigger issue than finding cancers you missed is actually false positives, finding cancers that aren't really there. Thats a much harder problem. Imagine having to get a breast biopsy for a cancer that doesn't exist. That's the state of the art today.