Artificial intelligence can identify women who are at risk of breast cancer several years before they are diagnosed, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said on Tuesday.
Five researchers from this Institute, the University of California and the University of Washington, were given access to the commercial artificial intelligence program, which retroactively analyzed the mammograms of 116,495 women who participated in the Norwegian program between 2004 and 2018.
In total, 1,607 of the women later faced breast cancer.
The algorithm was able to verify which women had the highest risk of developing breast cancer, and even which breast was at highest risk, four to six years before diagnosis.
"We noticed that the breast that developed cancer had twice as many points in the system as the other breast," said Solveig Hofvind, the woman who leads the program for detecting breast cancer through artificial intelligence.
"The study shows that algorithms that are already available on the market can be used to develop even more personalized detection programs," she said.
According to the World Health Organization, 670,000 women died from breast cancer in 2022.
This, at the same time, is the most common form of cancer that develops in women.
This study has also been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network, one of the most prestigious journals in the world./ REL (A2 Televizion)
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