Google claims its new AI can predict breast cancer better than radiologists

Can artificial intelligence (AI) spot breast cancer more accurately than a human radiologist? Google would argue it can. The company claims to have developed an AI model that is “capable of surpassing human experts” in predicting breast cancer.

“In an independent study of six radiologists, the AI system outperformed all of the human readers: the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC) for the AI system was greater than the AUC-ROC for the average radiologist by an absolute margin of 11.5%,” the company wrote in a blog post.

Google has been working on the project for two years with clinical research partners in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US).