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Online Event: Improving Breast Cancer Risk Prediction with AI 🤖
Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in breast cancer research, and this upcoming online Breast Cancer Grand Round explores how AI could help personalise breast cancer screening in the future. 💗
Presented by A/Prof Davis McCarthy, this session will discuss the BRAIx risk score, an AI-based tool developed using BreastScreen Victoria mammograms to help predict a woman's current and future breast cancer risk. Researchers found the tool was a strong predictor of intermediate-term breast cancer risk and may help support more personalised, risk-based screening approaches.
📅 Wednesday 7 October 2026
🕐 1:00pm to 2:00pm AEDT
💻 Online
🎯 Mainly aimed at clinicians and researchers, but suitable for anyone interested in the future of breast cancer detection and screening.
As technology continues to evolve, research like this is helping explore new ways to identify risk and improve breast cancer outcomes through more tailored screening pathways. 💕
🔗 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bcgr-featuring-aprof-davis-mccarthy-tickets-2000232079996
Have you heard much about the use of AI in breast cancer screening and diagnosis? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. 💬💗
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In amongst the images from my initial mammogram last year was an AI report image. The AI had marked up areas of concern in both breasts and gave them a score out of 100 as well as an overall risk of "elevated".
No one spoke to me about the image so I googled to try and understand it. I personally would have found it helpful to have it explained (though maybe they weren't expecting me to look at the images so closely).
The area with the highest score (89) was biopsied - that was my tumour. A mid-level score suspicious area (67) of calcifications was biopsied but came back benign.
At my one year mammogram I was looking forward to being able to compare the AI results to see whether it would see anything in my lumpectomy area and whether the other suspicious areas scored differently. Disappointingly they didn't provide an AI report image - maybe it's not so accurate post-surgery and radiation? or maybe they discontinued it? I don't know.
I would hope that it never got to the point where the AI is relied upon solely and that AI is used to guide humans who still look over everything.
