An AI tool called Mia found missed breast cancer symptoms in the scans of 11 women during an NHS...
BBC. AI tool Mia circles two areas of concern on a mammogram scan.
An AI tool tested by an NHS hospital trust successfully identified tiny signs of breast cancer in 11 women which had been missed by human doctors.
The tool, called Mia, was piloted alongside NHS clinicians and analysed the mammograms of over 10,000 women.
Without the AI tool's assistance, Barbara's cancer would potentially not have been spotted until her next routine mammogram three years later.
Of the 10,889 women who participated in the trial, only 81 did not want the AI tool to review their scans, said Dr Gerald Lip, clinical director of breast screening in the north west of Scotland and the doctor who led the project.
Breast cancer doctors look at around 5,000 breast scans per year on average, and can view 100 in a single session.
Dr Gerald Lip ran the evaluation of the AI tool at NHS Grampian.
"These results are encouraging and help to highlight the exciting potential AI presents for diagnostics. There is no question that real-life clinical radiologists are essential and irreplaceable, but a clinical radiologist using insights from validated AI tools will increasingly be a formidable force in patient care." said Dr Katharine Halliday, President of the Royal College of Radiologists.
Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at Cancer Research UK said the increasing number of cancer cases diagnosed each year meant technological innovation would be "Vital" to help improve NHS services and reduce pressure on its staff.
There are other healthcare-related AI trials going on around the UK, including an AI tool by a firm called Presymptom Health which is analysing blood samples looking for signs of sepsis before symptoms emerge - but many are still in early stages without published results.