{"id":272175,"date":"2025-11-09T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272175\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:58:09","slug":"ai-tool-helps-detect-cancers-missed-in-regular-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272175\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Tool Helps Detect Cancers Missed in Regular Screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kevin-andrews.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"AI Tool Helps Detect Cancers Missed in Regular Screenings\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kevin Andrews File photo)<\/p>\n<p>A local tech blogger says doctors are now able to use AI as a tool to help detect breast cancer on tests that would otherwise\u00a0be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Andrews says AI is using \u201cdeep learning\u201d\u00a0to study\u00a0thousands of mammograms to learn what breast cancer could look like, even when it is hard to stop.<\/p>\n<p>He says a recent study found that AI\u00a0was able to detect\u00a0one\u00a0out of every three\u00a0breast cancers that doctors had missed during regular screenings.<\/p>\n<p>He calls this a \u201chuge deal\u201d because the earlier cancer is found, the better the chance of survival. Andrews argues it is not about replacing doctors, but rather giving them a second set of eyes to make sure things don\u2019t slip through the cracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Kevin Andrews File photo) A local tech blogger says doctors are now able to use AI as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-272175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}