Would identify risk of breast cancer several years in advance

Artificial Intelligence (IA) is able to identify women at the risk of breast cancer several years before diagnosis-indicated the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI), this Tuesday.

A study recently in Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama) revealed a Was able to identify the risk of cancer in the breast several years in advance.

Five FHI researchers and Washington and California universities in the United States used a commercially available AI algorithm to analyze mammograms of 116,495 women who participated in a tracking program in Norway between 2004 and 2018, of which 1,607 had a breast cancer of which .

Through a scoring system based on mammograms, the algorithm was capable of predicting a higher risk of breast cancer and even determine which one is in question, four to six years before the diagnosis.

“We found that the breast that developed cancer had a score of AI about twice higher than the other breast“, Said the project leader and director of the screening program, Solveig Hofvindcited not communicated.

“The study shows that AI algorithms already available on the market can be used to develop more personalized screening programs“He added.

According to the FHI, the use of AI could, in addition to identifying women at risk, improve early detection and reduce costs.

Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that 670,000 women died by 2022 due to breast cancer, the most common type of malignant tumor in women in the vast majority of countries.

Based on the Norwegian screening program, another study was launched last year, involving 140,000 women to determine whether AI can be so effective or better than radiologists in cancer diagnosis.