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Mark Traill¹, Jensen Jantz², Blair Richards³

¹Department of Radiiology, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, MI; MammoBot PLLC, Niles, MI; Department of Medical Imaging, Formerly at University of Michigan Health-West, Wyoming, MI.

Clinical Breast Cancer

|December 13, 2025

Summary

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Optimizing artificial intelligence (AI) scores for breast cancer screening can improve patient triage. Using high AI scores ensures most triaged patients have cancer, speeding diagnosis and treatment.

Keywords:

Artificial intelligence Delayed cancer treatment Image based risk assesment Logistic regression models Mammography scheduling

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Area of Science:

Radiology
Artificial Intelligence
Oncology

Background:

AI-driven triage of screening mammograms shows promise for faster diagnosis and treatment initiation.
Defining optimal operating points for AI breast cancer detection scores is crucial due to variability in performance metrics like Positive Predictive Value (PPV), sensitivity, specificity, and false-negative (FN) rates.

Purpose of the Study:

To define optimal operating points for AI breast cancer detection scores used in clinical triage.
To evaluate the impact of different operating points on key performance metrics.

Main Methods:

Analysis of AI breast cancer detection model performance metrics using patient datasets from clinical practice.
Calculation of performance metrics at various operating point levels.

Main Results:

Mathematical analysis indicates that very high AI cancer detection scores are highly specific for breast cancer, yielding few false positives.
Triage based on the highest AI case scores is expected to result in a high proportion of positive cancer diagnoses among triaged patients.

Conclusions:

Utilizing the highest AI scores for triage can identify patients likely to have breast cancer, facilitating immediate diagnostic workup.
This approach can enhance clinical workflow efficiency by minimizing the burden of false-positive cases on clinic logistics.