Google's AI is better at breast cancer screening than human experts, study claims

You may remember Google's DeepMind AI being really good at Go, but the company's also been putting it to work on a potentially life-saving mission — breast cancer screening. 

According to Google's new study, published in Nature, the company's AI model was able to spot breast cancer in mammograms with "greater accuracy, fewer false positives, and fewer false negatives than experts."

This doesn't mean the AI will completely replace experts, though; instead it will support the work of radiologists who perform breast cancer screenings.

According to Google, digital mammography — x-ray imaging of the breast — is the most common method of breast cancer screening today, but actually finding and diagnosing breast cancer in the imagery isn't easy. It often results in both false positives and false negatives, which can delay treatment and increase workload for radiologists.  Read more...