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Radiologists recommend that patients whose breast MRI scans raise suspicion of a cancerous growth get a biopsy done. This leads to some patients having their lesions falsely classified as higher risk than they are, and undergoing a biopsy. Outside experts commended the study for developing a promising AI tool to reduce the false-positive rate of breast MRI, noting the rarity of commercial AI tools specifically for processing MRI scans. The system was trained on a dataset of over 20,000 labeled breast MRI scans, learning to associate certain features in the 3D images with characteristics of breast cancer. Hopefully, they can reduce the number of benign biopsies by a certain amount and not miss any cancers.
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Radiologists recommend that patients whose breast MRI scans raise suspicion of a cancerous growth get a biopsy done. This leads to some patients having their lesions falsely classified as higher risk than they are, and undergoing a biopsy. Outside experts commended the study for developing a promising AI tool to reduce the false-positive rate of breast MRI, noting the rarity of commercial AI tools specifically for processing MRI scans. The system was trained on a dataset of over 20,000 labeled breast MRI scans, learning to associate certain features in the 3D images with characteristics of breast cancer. Hopefully, they can reduce the number of benign biopsies by a certain amount and not miss any cancers.
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https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/03/breast-cancer-artificial-intelligence-biopsy/
