Doctors
AI tool finds cancer signs missed by doctors
An AI tool has proven capable of detecting signs of cancer that were overlooked by human radiologists. The AI tool, called Mia, was piloted alongside NHS clinicians in the UK and analysed the mammograms of over 10,000 women. Most of the participants were cancer-free, but the AI successfully flagged all of those with symptoms of…
Doctors have more difficulty diagnosing disease when looking at images of darker skin | MIT News
When diagnosing skin diseases based solely on images of a patient’s skin, doctors do not perform as well when the patient has darker skin, according to a new study from MIT researchers. The study, which included more than 1,000 dermatologists and general practitioners, found that dermatologists accurately characterized about 38 percent of the images they…