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In a study published in a 2020 issue of Nature, and involving over 91,000 women in the U.S. and U.K., Google's algorithm for mammograms performed better than radiologists; it logged fewer false positives and false negatives in reading the images. On November 28, 2022, Google announced it licensed its AI technology to a medical technology company, iCAD, that provides breast cancer detection services to health care facilities around the world. "It's an inflection point for us. We're moving from academic research to being able to deploy our algorithm in the real world," Greg Corrado, co-founder of the Google Brain team and principal scientist on Google's AI health care team. The algorithm is not currently designed to replace radiologists, Stacey Stevens, president and CEO of iCAD explains. But it can help more people have access to mammography image readings, as well as complement radiologists' assessments. (Many nations require two readings of a mammography image, and one possibility is that an AI reading could be one of them.)
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