"This is another step along the way of trying to answer some of the questions that will be critical for us to actually deploying this in the real world."

Google's new AI is great at spotting breast cancer in X-rays

Breast Cancer AI

A team of UK researchers at Google Health and Google's AI lab DeepMind has created a tool that can successfully identify breast cancer in mammograms.

Google’s New AI is Great at Spotting Breast Cancer in X-Rays

READ MORE: <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-google-ai-breast-cancer">DeepMind&#8217;s new AI can spot breast cancer just as well as your doctor</a> [Wired UK]

More on health AIs: <a href="https://futurism.com/neoscope/ai-knows-when-youll-die-how">This AI Knows When You’ll Die and Its Creators Don’t Know How</a>

Cancer

Could this AI reduce our dependence on human radiologists?

Hormonal birth control increases women's breast cancer risk by 20%, similar to the risk brought on by lack of exercise.

It's 2017. Our contraceptives are still harming women.

Health & Medicine

An 11-year study found that hormonal contraceptives, even at small doses, may still carry an increased risk of causing breast cancer.

It's 2017. Our Contraceptives Are Still Harming Women.

Even low-dose contraceptives increase the risk of breast cancer.

It’s 2017. Our Contraceptives Are Still Harming Women.

Machine learning and medicine work well together.

Machine learning identifies breast lesions likely to become cancer

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers have trained a machine learning system to discern between breast lesions classified as high-risk to help prevent unnecessary surgery.

Machine Learning Identifies Breast Lesions Likely to Become Cancer

Researchers teach AI to predict which high-risk lesions present the most risk.

This treatment could allow patients to avoid going through chemotherapy post surgery, lowering their risks of adverse side effects.

A New Treatment Destroyed Breast Cancer Tumors in 11 Days Without Chemo

We have a long way to go to a cure, but this is simply remarkable progress.

Hard Science

Researchers have developed a cancer therapy that combines drugs to fix pathways in DNA and block cancer's repair mechanisms.
The therapy could lead to the development of more effective breast cancer treatments, a disease roughly 250,000 more American women face every year.

Changing The Properties of DNA: Scientists Have a New Way to Fight Cancer

Tumor sizes were reduced by half.

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.

Artificial Intelligence Reads Mammograms With 99% Accuracy

It would minimize false positives and the psychosocial damage they cause women.

Scientists trained an AI machine to detect breast cancer in images of lymph nodes.

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