Artificial Intelligence Can Accurately Detect Cancer on Breast Ultrasound
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women and is the leading cause of cancer deaths among them. Annual mammography can really help to detect early breast cancers. But sometimes a few mammograms are misdiagnosed as cancer, even when they are completely normal. This screening test is then followed by a biopsy, which is invasive and results in scarring of the breast skin. Newer non-invasive diagnostic tests have now evolved that are more specific.
Breast Ultrasound Elastography:
It determines the tissue stiffness/elasticity without any invasive procedure, by using sound (ultrasonic) waves. Reading and interpreting mammograms are challenging even for experts. This being said, the chances of getting both false positives and false negatives are considerable in digital mammography. On the other hand, Breast Ultrasound Elastography coupled with artificial intelligence is able to decrease the number of false-positive and false-negative results in the diagnosis of breast cancer.
What role does Artificial Intelligence play?
Using the already fed information containing differences between cancerous and non-cancerous lesions, AI (artificial intelligence) accurately detects breast cancers in the images acquired by the Ultrasound Elastography. The AI basically categorizes the lesion as benign or malignant. This principle is very much similar to the one based on which photo identification software works. It is all computer-aided.
This advanced Korean technology confirms the diagnosis made by a mammogram, without making any cuts on the skin! The AI model is very well trained and developed by researchers.
Are you looking for a proper evaluation of your breast? Do you think you are at a high risk of developing breast cancer? Also, are you aged above 40 years? You might want to stop just concerning yourself and simply pay a visit to the Radiology Centre at Harding, situated in Morristown, New Jersey. We will provide you with all these advanced diagnostic evidence like Artificial Intelligence so that you be completely aware of your condition.
Reasons why you should get an AI evaluation of Ultrasound Elastography done:
• Your mammogram detects a lump.
• You have a close relative who has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
• You want a presumptive diagnosis before the biopsy report.
• Cosmetology is important to you; you want to preserve the appearance of your breast skin.
• You don't want to get a biopsy done unnecessarily, whatever be the reason.
• As an aid to biopsy, to confirm the diagnosis.
• You want to know the stage of the tumor.
Many will have one great confusion, upon being told about this idea of diagnosis by artificial intelligence. That is, individual doctors, in general, have more experience and have seen the earlier mammograms and other reports of the patient. They also have access to other information like patient symptoms and complaints. The AI, on the contrary, has no other information to refer to, other than the most recent mammogram/ ultrasound report. So it should come to one's mind that the AI should be inaccurate and untrustworthy. But to the utter surprise of researchers, the accuracy of AI is able to surpass even the most experienced of radiologists!
