Google’s artificial intelligence will be able to predict lung cancer
Of all the types of cancer worldwide, lung cancer is the deadliest. It kills 1.7 million people every year. This number is more than the combined number of deaths from breast, bladder and colon cancer. The biggest problem is that in many cases, the cancer is detected only in the final stages, at which point the chances of successful treatment are very low.
Google could change that. Google wants to make cancer predictions more accurate and accessible to everyone. Radiologists typically look at hundreds of images from a single CT scan for lung cancer. With this new AI model, Google can predict lung cancer and even identify diseased tissue.
Such tissues are difficult to see conventionally.
The AI also takes into account previous scans to predict the growth rate of suspicious tissue. To test this model, Google asked the AI to analyze 45,856 CT scans of the chest. Its results were compared with the results of 6 board-certified radiologists. In experiments, Google’s artificial intelligence identified 5 percent more cases of cancer than radiologists. It also reduced misdiagnosis by 11 percent.
More experiments and research are needed before this model can be widely implemented, but Google says its initial results are encouraging.
