Artificial Intelligence Manages To Spot Breast & Prostate Cancer Almost Perfectly
Year: 2020
In January 2020, researchers published their findings regarding how Google’s new DeepMind AI System outperformed 6 human radiologists. The AI spotted abnormalities on X-Ray images in nearly 29,000 women. The AI System demonstrated a 5.7% reduction in false positives too. Then in July, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh trained an AI system to recognize prostate cancer just from tissue slides. When testing it, the AI demonstrated a 98% sensitivity and 97% specificity in detecting prostate cancer. This is better than most human testing by a large amount. This same AI was also used to spot tumor grading, sizing, and invasion of surrounding nerves. The power AI showed here was some of the most surprising scientific findings of the decade, but it wouldn’t be the last time.