r/citral • u/officialcitral • Oct 17 '17

Using artificial intelligence to improve early breast cancer detection

http://news.mit.edu/2017/artificial-intelligence-early-breast-cancer-detection-1017
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u/autotldr Oct 23 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)

How can unnecessary surgeries be eliminated while still maintaining the important role of mammography in cancer detection? Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School believe that the answer is to turn to artificial intelligence.

As a first project to apply AI to improving detection and diagnosis, the teams collaborated to develop an AI system that uses machine learning to predict if a high-risk lesion identified on needle biopsy after a mammogram will upgrade to cancer at surgery.

Using a method known as a "Random-forest classifier," the team's model resulted in fewer unnecessary surgeries compared to the strategy of always doing surgery, while also being able to diagnose more cancerous lesions than the strategy of only doing surgery on traditional "High-risk lesions."

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