Friday, September 20, 2024

GovCIO: How AI Improves Breast Cancer Detection

On a national level, cancer is a presidential priority. As part of the reignited Cancer Moonshot initiative, the National Cancer Institute this week released an interagency plan to tackle cancer and reduce the cancer death rate over the next decade. Part of that will involve tools like AI to make a difference in detecting the disease.

AI uses computer-assisted detection to identify changes between mammograms. The computer-generated application is used to analyze mammograms and can find abnormalities years before a typical cancer diagnosis…

“We know that with implementation of AI, in more rural parts of the country where the underserved are getting a lot of their care, we can use AI to help the general radiologists function as well as or better than the sub-specialized radiologist,” Brem said.

AI is transforming health care and the future of a cancer diagnosis for all cancers. In 2021, the FDA launched GI Genius, an AI tool to detect cancer during a colonoscopy…

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