Researchers have developed a new tool with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) methods to predict a woman's future risk of breast cancer. For the study, the researchers used almost 90,000 full-resolution screening mammograms from about 40,000 women to train, validate and test the deep learning model. "There's much more information in a mammogram than just the four categories of breast density, "said study lead author from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
"By using the deep learning model, we learn subtle cues that are indicative of future cancer," he added. The research team recently compared three different risk assessment approaches. The first model relied on traditional risk factors, the second on deep learning that used the mammogram alone, and the third on a hybrid approach that incorporated both the mammogram and traditional risk factors into the deep…
