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NHS AI test spots tiny cancers missed by doctors


An AI tool called Mia found missed breast cancer symptoms in the scans of 11 women during an NHS test.

An AI tool tested by an NHS hospital trust successfully identified tiny signs of breast cancer in 11 women which had been missed by human doctors. Of the 10,889 women who participated in the trial, only 81 did not want the AI tool to review their scans, said Dr Gerald Lip, clinical director of breast screening in the north west of Scotland and the doctor who led the project. AI tools are generally pretty good at spotting symptoms of a specific disease, if they are trained on enough data to enable them to be identified.

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