A U.K. woman is thanking artificial intelligence for saving her life.
Sheila Tooth of Littlehampton, West Sussex, had her breast cancer successfully detected by AI after routine testing came back “normal,” according to a report by SWNS.
Tooth, 68, was told she was clear of breast cancer after her last mammogram was reviewed by two radiologists.
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Her mammogram was then analyzed by an AI system, Mammography Intelligent Assessment, as part of a system being tested by University Hospitals Sussex.
The technology picked up cancer cells in Tooth’s screening that were undetectable by the human eye, according to SWNS.
Tooth had been previously diagnosed with non-invasive early breast cancer 15 years ago, so she reported feeling “very frightened” about being diagnosed again.
“But I knew that whatever they could see on my scan must have been incredibly small if it wasn’t picked up the first time,” she told SWNS.