NewsHealth & MedicineAI boosts breast cancer detection in nationwide screening study in GermanyThe results show AI could streamline the screening process AI rivals doctors ability to interpret mammograms, a real-world study with nearly 500,000 participants in Germany suggests.Tom Werner/Getty ImagesBy McKenzie Prillaman17 seconds agoBreast cancer detection could get a boost from artificial intelligence.When AI helped examine mammograms, doctors caught one more cancer case per 1,000 screened individuals compared with when they didnt use the technology, researchers report January 7 in Nature Medicine. The largest real-world study on AIs potential for breast cancer screening, which included nearly 500,000 women in Germany, suggests that the software could streamline the screening process without affecting the rate of false alarms.AI in mammography screening is at least as good as a human reader, and our study shows its even better, says cancer epidemiologist Alexander Katalinic of the University of Lbeck in Germany.