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andrewstuartlast Thursday at 6:59 AM2 repliesview on HN

AI finds nearly 2/3rds of breast cancers!


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nomellast Thursday at 7:51 AM

I see you're not in the marketing department! We can do better by only considering "missed" as what wouldn't also be missed by a human: AI finds 71% of breast cancer*!

*Compared to a human.

thereisnosporklast Thursday at 7:13 AM

Depending how the costs of AI detection vs doctor, that genuinely might be enough to shift the math and be a net positive. If it is cheap enough to test 10x the current tested population, which would have lower, but non-zero rates of breast cancer, then[0] AI would result in more cancer detected and therefore more aggregate lives saved.

[0]presumptively

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