By https://www.abc.net.au/news/stephanie-dalzell/3318210
Publication Date: 2026-03-03 23:31:00
An Australian-made artificial intelligence tool can detect women at high risk of breast cancer who would otherwise be missed during normal screening, according to a new study.
The AI tool identified women who had the same or higher risk of breast cancer than women with the deadly BRCA gene mutations.
The study, published in the journal Lancet Digital Health, found that the tool was able to capture risk factors not visible to humans and was more accurate than current risk assessment methods.
Unlike a radiologist who either finds cancer or doesn’t, the AI tool provides a personalized risk score between 0 and 99.9 that predicts the likelihood that the woman will develop breast cancer at some point in the next four years.
The study found that one in 10 women who were in the top 2 percent of risk scores later developed breast cancer, even though their mammograms were clearly positive.
“I think it is a groundbreaking discovery that the algorithm was able to identify signals of risk and/or early cancer that…
