{"entity":{"id":"ai-mammography-screening","kind":"technology","name":"AI-assisted mammography screening","aka":[],"tldr":"Software that reads screening mammograms alongside or before radiologists, catching more cancers and cutting the reading workload in large trials.","summary":"Deep-learning readers for mammography have regulatory clearance in Europe and the United States and are being tested as a replacement for one of the two human readers used in European screening programmes. The Swedish MASAI randomised trial found AI-supported screening detected more cancers with a lower reading workload, and the Danish and German programmes have reported similar results in practice. Risk-prediction models from the same images are being studied to personalise screening intervals.","status":"approved","asOf":"2026-09-04","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammography","links":[{"label":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammography"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-hr-positive","breast-her2-positive","tnbc"],"sections":["early-detection","ai-computation"],"technologies":["dermoscopy-ai"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"notes":[],"principle":"Convolutional networks trained on millions of mammograms produce a suspicion score per breast; low-scoring exams go to single reading and high-scoring ones are flagged for human review or recall.","strengths":["Higher cancer detection in randomised and real-world studies","Large reduction in radiologist workload","Consistent performance across sites"],"limitations":["Long-term effect on interval cancers and mortality still being measured","Regulatory and liability frameworks vary","Risk of over-detection needs monitoring"]},"route":"/technologies/ai-mammography-screening/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-her2-positive","kind":"cancer","name":"HER2-positive breast cancer","route":"/cancers/breast-her2-positive/"},{"id":"breast-hr-positive","kind":"cancer","name":"HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer","route":"/cancers/breast-hr-positive/"},{"id":"tnbc","kind":"cancer","name":"Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)","route":"/cancers/tnbc/"}],"section":[{"id":"ai-computation","kind":"section","name":"AI & Computation","route":"/fronts/ai-computation/"},{"id":"early-detection","kind":"section","name":"Early Detection & Screening","route":"/fronts/early-detection/"}],"technology":[{"id":"dermoscopy-ai","kind":"technology","name":"Dermoscopy, total-body photography & AI skin analysis","route":"/technologies/dermoscopy-ai/"}]}}