Expanding our research on breast cancer screening to Japan
Today, we’re delighted to announce that this project is expanding internationally, with The Jikei University Hospital, one of Japan’s foremost medical institutions, joining the collaboration as part of a wider five year partnership they have signed with DeepMind Health.
For the purposes of this research, they will be working with us to analyse historic, de-identified mammograms from around 30,000 women taken at the hospital between 2007 and 2018.
These will be analysed with AI technology alongside the historic de-identified mammograms already provided by the UK OPTIMAM mammography database in order to investigate whether the technology can spot signs of cancerous tissue on these X-rays more effectively than current screening techniques allow.
De-identified breast ultrasounds from around 30,000 women and 3,500 de-identified breast MRI scans will also be shared by The Jikei University Hospital during the course of the project.
DeepMind
https://deepmind.com/blog/breast-cancer-screening-japan/
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