CLEVELAND — To help detect breast cancer early, the Cleveland Clinic uses artificial intelligence-based computer aided detection in 3D mammography.

What You Need To Know

  • The Cleveland Clinic uses AI to assist breast radiologist

  • The AI can help spot subtle cancers and reduces false positives

  • Although the AI is helpful, officials explained this this will not replace experience radiologists 

Dr. Laura Dean, a breast radiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, said it can help her detect subtle cancers with greater precision while also contributing to the reduction of false positives.

“Radiology is really uniquely suited for artificial intelligence,” Dean said. “The images that we acquire have fixed data sets. Those data sets can then basically use the algorithm, and computers can learn from those algorithms and apply it to future exams.”

Dean said although the AI is helpful to her work, it does not replace a radiologist.

“The fact that we have AI overlays overtop of the imaging, it is something to augment or enhance an experienced radiologist,” she said. “It is not replacing the eye of a radiologist."

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