AI triages breast cancer
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Women with abnormal mammograms often wait weeks to find out if they have cancer.
UCSF used an AI model called Mirai, trained on hundreds of thousands of mammograms, to identify the 12.7% of patients most likely to have cancer.
Those patients went from screening to evaluation to biopsy in a single day.
Wait time for a diagnostic evaluation dropped from several weeks to about an hour.
The wait time for a biopsy dropped from two months to under 10 days.
The AI does not diagnose. It triages.
Read more: University of California San Francisco
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