The UK's first full evaluation of AI in breast cancer screening found that adding it to the process raised cancer detection by 10.4%, while also cutting the workload on doctors.
Right now two specialists read every mammogram, and around one in five cancers still slips through. Finding more at screening means finding more early, when treatment tends to be simplest.
Mayo Clinic researchers ran their AI over nearly 2,000 routine CT scans, including older scans from people later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that had looked clear at the time. It caught about 73% of those hidden cases, roughly 16 months before diagnosis on average.
Read the storyGoogle and the education company Eedi ran a randomised trial with 1,179 students in UK maths classrooms. On the quick checks after each session, students helped by the AI tutor did about as well as students helped by expert humans.
Read the storyIn a survey of 942 US small business owners for the banking platform Bluevine, 48% said AI saves them at least four hours a week, and 14% said it saves ten hours or more.
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