International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening

2020 Nature 2,788 citations

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False positive paradoxBreast cancerMammographyReceiver operating characteristicFalse positives and false negativesArtificial intelligenceMedicineWorkloadMargin (machine learning)CancerBreast cancer screeningMachine learningComputer scienceMedical physicsInternal medicine

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2020
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577
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7788
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89-94
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Scott Mayer McKinney, Marcin Sieniek, Varun Godbole et al. (2020). International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening. Nature , 577 (7788) , 89-94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1799-6

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