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Artificial intelligence can spot breast cancer better than doctors: Google

Google is also training artificial intelligence to help determine whether a patient is likely to live or die, mining thousands of data points to help make predictions about outcomes.

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Artificial intelligence can spot breast cancer more accurately than doctors, according to a study by Google Health.
 
The technology’s reading of mammograms reduced both false positives, where healthy patients are mistakenly diagnosed with the disease, and false negatives, where the cancer is missed, the Alphabet  unit said in a blog post. The system reduced false positives by 5.7 per cent in the US, according to the data from more than 28,000 mammograms performed there and in the UK.
 
Artificial intelligence is particularly good at reading scans, often outperforming experts. Last year, Google published research that showed how the

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