Leaving cancer diagnosis to the computers
The Lancet Digital Health · The Lancet Digital Health · 2020
Recent reports of artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnosis of brain cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer, and others profess greater accuracy and faster diagnosis in patients than human specialists, giving prominence to the potential of using deep learning AI tools to improve cancer diagnoses. According to Cancer Research UK, 27·5 million new cancer cases could be diagnosed globally each year by 2040, meaning that radiological imaging data will continue to grow at an inordinate rate when compared with the number of radiologists.