mammogram

By  Mallory Hackett 02:51 pm July 28, 2020
Zebra Medical Vision has announced its latest Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for HealthMammo, an artificial intelligence tool that helps radiologists identify suspicious mammograms. The AI tool works by automatically sending mammograms to the analytic platform to be searched for breast lesions. HealthMammo then marks each mammogram as either “suspicious” or “not suspicious” for the...
By  Laura Lovett 03:47 pm January 2, 2020
Google’s artificial intelligence proved more accurate in identifying breast cancer from mammograms than doctors, according to a study published in Nature yesterday. The initial results of Google’s AI for breast cancer screening, found that the system was able to reduce the number of both false positives and false negatives in breast cancer detection. The study was born out of a collaboration...
By  Aditi Pai 11:27 am March 25, 2015
Older, low-income women prefer to use digital health tools to a paper questionnaire when entering health data, according to a small study of 15 English and Spanish speaking women conducted by researchers from the University of California San Francisco. The women in the trial used an iPad app developed by five University of California medical centers, called Athena Breast Health Network. The app ...