The majority of healthcare systems base their BC screening programmes on
image-based modalities, including as magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasonography, and mammography (MRI). Women who have found a lump in their
breasts are more likely to seek medical counsel about BC for this reason. 90%
of them, nevertheless, will turn out to be benign lesions instead of
malignancy, like fibroadenomas. In fact, since breast tissue is so thick,
image-based approaches frequently fall short of accurately identifying cancers
in women with fibrocystic breasts. This issue affects between 56% and 60% of women
globally. This aspect raises the advised screening frequency while also
producing a great deal of false positives.
MRI is often the preferable method when the tumour
is tiny or the breast tissue is thick since it is radiation-free, highly
selective, and sensitive. For this reason, MRI screening for BRCA1 or
BRCA2-positive women begins earlier in life. MRI screening is frequently
conducted on individuals with fibrocystic mastopathy and those whose
mammography results are unclear. However, using MRI or mammography to screen 1
million women would cost $640 million and $216 million, respectively. As a
result, there is a propensity to improve mammography by running the resulting
image through a classification algorithm that is based on AI.

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