Artificial intelligence; how truly helpful is it in improving lung cancer diagnoses?

Researchers at the Seoul National University (Korea) have conducted an experiment to discover the factors affecting a lung cancer diagnosis when radiologists are assisted by artificial intelligence. It has been shown in a few studies that radiologist’s ability to detect malignant lung nodules on chest X-rays is improved when assisted by AI. However, the components behind a radiologist’s determinations have remained unclear. To test how much the sensitivity and specificity is improved when AI and radiology is combined, Seoul National University researchers designed an experiment including radiologists with varying years of experience and two AI tools with different levels of...