AI can identify women at risk of breast cancer years in advance: study

The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network, which edits a collection of prestigious medical journals.

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Artificial intelligence is able to identify women who have an elevated risk of developing breast cancer several years before it is diagnosed, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) said on Jan. 28.

Five researchers from FHI, the University of California and the University of Washington were given access to a commercially available AI programme to retroactively analyse the mammographies of 116,495 women who took part in a Norwegian detection programme between 2004 and 2018. In total, 1,607 of the women developed breast cancer.

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