Google Partners With Med Tech Company To Develop AI Breast Cancer Screening Tools (theverge.com) 8
Google announced today that it has licensed its AI research model for breast cancer screening to medical technology company iCAD. This is the first time Google is licensing the technology, with the hopes that it will eventually lead to more accurate breast cancer detection and risk assessment. From a report: The two companies aim to eventually deploy the technology in real-world clinical settings -- targeting a "2024 release," Google communications manager Nicole Linton told The Verge in an email. Commercial deployment, however, still depends on how successful continued research and testing are. "We will move deliberately and test things as we go," Linton said in the email.
The partnership builds on Google's prior work to improve breast cancer detection. Back in 2020, Google researchers published a paper in the journal Nature that found that its AI system outperformed several radiologists in identifying signs of breast cancer. The model reduced false negatives by up to 9.4 percent and reduced false positives by up to 5.7 percent among thousands of mammograms studied. iCAD plans to incorporate Google's mammography AI research model into iCAD's existing tools. The first is its "ProFound AI" tool that analyzes images from digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), an advanced imaging technique sometimes called "3D mammography." The tool scans DBT images to look for malignant soft tissue densities and calcifications. iCAD also plans to use Google's model with its risk evaluation tool, which the company says provides personalized breast cancer risk estimation tailored to each person.
The partnership builds on Google's prior work to improve breast cancer detection. Back in 2020, Google researchers published a paper in the journal Nature that found that its AI system outperformed several radiologists in identifying signs of breast cancer. The model reduced false negatives by up to 9.4 percent and reduced false positives by up to 5.7 percent among thousands of mammograms studied. iCAD plans to incorporate Google's mammography AI research model into iCAD's existing tools. The first is its "ProFound AI" tool that analyzes images from digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), an advanced imaging technique sometimes called "3D mammography." The tool scans DBT images to look for malignant soft tissue densities and calcifications. iCAD also plans to use Google's model with its risk evaluation tool, which the company says provides personalized breast cancer risk estimation tailored to each person.
Mamograms may cause cancer! (Score:3, Interesting)
Anyway I found this [medicalnewstoday.com] link (use a script blocker) as to the risks and rewards of getting regular mammograms. In general it's better to be getting regular mammograms than not, but squishing breasts and then applying radiation does, in fact, increase risk to some degree. According to this [nutritionfacts.org] link "Out of 100,000 women screened annually from 40 to 55 years of age and then every other year until she is 74, researchers predict 86 cancers will be induced and 11 deaths caused by radiation-induced breast cancer."
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That's the reason of this article.
You will just take a photograph of the titties you want to examine and upload it to Google to see the result immediately.
OTOH, it might think that you gave it a picture of a Myrtillocactus geometrizans 'Fukurokuryuzinboku' (Breast Cactus)
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We, of the Radiologists' Trade Union (Score:2)
Will not stand idly by and let some software do a better job for a negligible cost.
But between the American Medical Association, the Government and Google we will be sure to find a way to charge you extra!
https://www.salary.com/researc... [salary.com]
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Will not stand idly by and let some software do a better job for a negligible cost.
That totally depends on who defines "better". IF Google is in the loop, expect to have no right to privacy even if the law says otherwise, and be haunted by ads for the rest of your life.
Your boobs are ours. Forever. (Score:2)
By using our software you sign away all your rights and privacy protections. We can now store and use the photos of your boobs to improve our algorithms, and if we deem them perfect enough, we can also hang them all across our office for everyone to see.
Google want to see your breasts, too! (Score:1)
I think that would make a better clickbaity headline.
Hands up, who think Google is not going to collect and store every bit of data about every breast (in 3D) they get from this partnership? How would you like your breast's 3D model being analyzed by Google engineers?