Can AI and radiologists work in harmony for double reading?

A team led by Dr. Solveig Hofvind, PhD, from the Section for Breast Cancer Screening, Cancer Registry of Norway found that the proportion of screen-detected cancers not selected by AI at evaluated thresholds was less than 20%, with several of these possibly being detected at an early stage in the next screening round.

“This is the largest study on real screening data so far, and it is difficult to compare with other studies as they are usually smaller and have used an enhanced data set,” Hofvind told AuntMinnie.com.

Double reading is standard practice in most European breast screening…