Commentary: Using artificial intelligence to diagnose cancer could mean unnecessary treatments
by Adewole S. Adamson and H. Gilbert Welch, Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2020
2 minutes
The new decade opened with some intriguing news: The journal Nature reported that artificial intelligence was better at identifying breast cancers on mammograms than radiologists. Researchers at Google Health teamed up with academic medical centers in the United States and Britain to train an AI system using tens of thousands of mammograms.
But even the best artificial intelligence system can't fix the uncertainties of early cancer diagnosis.
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