In the wrong hands AI can br dangerous---used for nefarious means.
But it can also be used for good.
The problem with us humans, with our fallen nature is The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked... Jeremiah 17:9
Here is a positive use:
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woman’s risk of breast cancer is typically calculated using clinical
models such as the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) risk
model, which uses self-reported and other information on the
patient—including age, family history of the disease, whether she has
given birth, and whether she has dense breasts—to calculate a risk
score.
Dr. Arasu used data associated with negative (showing no visible
evidence of cancer) screening 2D mammograms performed at Kaiser
Permanente Northern California in 2016. Of the 324,009 women screened in
2016 who met eligibility criteria, a random sub-cohort of 13,628 women
was selected for analysis. Additionally, all 4,584 patients from the
eligibility pool who were diagnosed with cancer within five years of the
original 2016 mammogram were also studied. All the women were followed
until 2021.
Using the 2016 screening mammograms, risk scores for breast cancer
over the five-year period were generated by five AI algorithms,
including two academic algorithms used by researchers and three
commercially available algorithms. The risk scores were then compared to
each other and to the BCSC clinical risk score
“All five AI
algorithms performed better than the BCSC risk model for predicting
breast cancer risk at 0 to 5 years,” Dr. Arasu said. “This strong
predictive performance over the five-year period suggests AI is
identifying both missed cancers and breast tissue features that help
predict future cancer development. Something in mammograms allows us to
track breast cancer risk. This is the ‘black box’ of AI.”
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