Artificial Intelligence Reads Mammograms With 99% Accuracy

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Remember that article that said robots will be taking all our good jobs? Well, it looks like it has begun. The Terminator doing mammograms makes me think of this image.

A team has developed artificial intelligence software that analyzes mammograms for breast cancer with 99 percent accuracy. This could help keep women from undergoing unnecessary biopsies, and would shield them from the agony of false positives.
 
If you really want to create more jobs in the medical industry, you could abolish laproscopy.
 
Upon reading the article more closely, and following the link to the report, I'm getting the impression that they may not be talking about about having a computer doing analysis instead of a human; rather, that a computer does additional analysis after the human analyst is done, the sort of massive data analysis that human analysts just don't have time to do.
 
Robots just won the Women vote in the presidential election of 2032.
 
Oh yeah...I bet it reads those mammograms real good.

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ok....the image link made me in real life laugh out loud.

well played steve - well played
 
Well, an AI wouldn't get bored and miss tiny details like a human would.
 
Reads with 99% accuracy, so it basically says no to everything, and since breast cancer has such a low percentage of people who have it, then bam 99% accuracy!
 
sfsuphysics said:
Reads with 99% accuracy, so it basically says no to everything, and since breast cancer has such a low percentage of people who have it, then bam 99% accuracy!
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99% accuracy for medical tests means correctly picking out 99% of the positive results.

The current accuracy rate for mammograms is 84%. The chance of having a false positive result after 10 yearly mammograms is about 50-60 percent. This software improves both of those rates significantly, and will probably pay for itself in very short order in terns of fewer tests and biopsies needing to be done and cancers being caught earlier.
 
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