ICT&health December 27, 2024
The use of AI can significantly improve the quality of breast cancer screening, research shows. Improving risk predictions of breast cancer can also improve its prevention. Improved techniques with AI make it easier to see on mammograms what the mammographic density, also known as breast tissue density, is. This is important in screening for breast cancer.
Breast tissue that looks white on a mammogram is radiologically dense, while breast tissue that looks dark is considered non-dense. In general, it can be said that women who have a higher mammographic density for their age and body-mass index also have a higher risk of breast cancer. On top of that, in the case of higher density, it is more difficult to detect...