Breast cancer pre-clinical screening using infrared thermography and artificial intelligence: a prospective, multicentre, diagnostic accuracy cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the limited access to breast cancer (BC) screening, the authors developed and validated a mobile phone-artificial intelligence-based infrared thermography (AI-IRT) system for BC screening.

Materials and methods

This large prospective clinical trial assessed the diagnostic performance of the AI-IRT system. The authors constructed two datasets and two models, performed internal and external validation, and compared the diagnostic accuracy of the AI models and clinicians. Dataset A included 2100 patients recruited from 19 medical centres in nine regions of China. Dataset B was used for independent external validation and included 102 patients recruited from Langfang People's Hospital.

Results

The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10583949 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature