As per a report by the New York Times (NYT), an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based software has been able to successfully find signs of breast cancer in a patient. Groundbreakingly, the software was able to detect signs that radiologists failed to discover with X-rays, proving that the technology could be more accurate than conventional methods of cancer detection.
The tests, which took place in Hungary’s Bács-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, proved promising to help detect early signs of cancer and improve survival chances with early treatment. As per the NYT report, the AI systems were rolled out in 2021 at five hospitals and clinics that perform around 35,000 screenings each year.
As per the AI software company Kheiron Medical Technologies, the software was able to reduce 30 per cent workload of radiologists and could spot cancer as well as the doctors could. Additional testing revealed that the software has increased the cancer detection rate by 13 per cent. This was amongst over 275,000 breast cancer cases studied by Kheiron.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer proves to be the second leading cause of death globally, with an estimated 9.6 million deaths according to 2018 data. Breast cancer, which affected 2.3 million women globally, has caused 6,85,000 deaths worldwide in 2020 alone. As of the end of 2020, a whopping 7.8 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the most prevalent cancer in the world.
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