Helping Radiologists Detect Breast Cancer with AI

Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women worldwide, and in the UK, a shortage of radiologists puts immense pressure on staff in radiology departments to deal with the backlog of people waiting for scans. To help reduce the burden on resources and staff, new ways of screening need to be investigated. Google partnered with Imperial College London and three NHS trusts on the Artificial Intelligence in Mammography Screening (AIMS) study to explore how an AI reader, integrated in place of a second human reader in the UK’s existing two reader plus arbitration system, performs in a real-world setting. R…