AI helps doctors spot breast cancer in scans: world-first trial

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Artificial intelligence helps doctors spot more cases of breast cancer when reading routine scans, a world-first trial found yesterday.

The results suggest countries should roll out programmes taking advantage of AI’s scanning power to ease the workload of short-staffed radiologists, the Swedish lead researchers said.

Well before the release of ChatGPT in 2022 raised global awareness about AI, scientists had been testing out the technology’s capacity to read medical scans.

But the new study published in The Lancet medical journal marks the first completed randomised controlled trial -- the gold standard for this kind of research -- looking at AI-supported breast cancer screening. The trial involved more than 100,000 women who received routine breast cancer scans across Sweden in 2021 and 2022.