Detecting Breast Cancer Faster with Artificial Intelligence
“Consider AI as an assistant or junior doctor who reads all these mammograms before a senior radiologist comes to the office. Overnight, the assistant reads all the images, makes diagnoses, prepares a report, highlights all the suspected lesions nicely, and presents it to the radiologist.” – Feng Mengling, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, FathomX; Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore.
The earlier breast cancer is detected, the better a woman’s chances are of surviving it. And artificial intelligence (AI) is now making this possible. Using deep learning to advance mammographic screening, startup FathomX is aiming to improve breast cancer diagnoses and deliver results more quickly, potentially reducing women’s anxiety and breast cancer deaths, and helping clinicians provide better, faster care.
More about FathomX:
Vision: Improve women’s health outcomes through better and faster detection of breast cancer
Strategy: Develop an AI tool that improves the accuracy of diagnoses and delivers results more quickly
Expected Outcomes:
- Cut false positives as well as false negatives for interval cancer cases in mammographic screening
- Accelerate the process of reading mammograms by more than 10x, from half an hour to as little as 2 minutes
- Reduce patient anxiety and breast cancer mortality rate and improve women’s quality of life