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Screening is hard work and tedious, so even trained professionals regularly miss things. TP incidence rate is under 1% in the screening population.

There have been studies showing significant improvement from double-reading mammo, for example (i.e. two radiologists, independently). Using an ML approach is trying to give you some or all of this benefit without the cost of redundant reads.




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