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Swedish MASAI trial finds AI-supported mammography reading cuts workload by 44%

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Source: The Lancet OncologyAlso reported by The ASCO Post, Radiology Business

The Lancet Oncology published early results of the MASAI randomised trial, led by Kristina Lång of Lund University, on 2 August 2023. Among about 80,000 women in Sweden, AI-supported screening found 244 cancers against 203 with standard double reading, with the same 1.5% false-positive rate, and cut screen-reading workload by 44.3%. The researchers planned to report interval cancer rates after two years of follow-up.

Why it matters

Breast screening programmes short of radiologists got randomised-trial evidence that AI triage can cut reading work by 44% without raising false positives.

When
2 Aug 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0079
Where
Sweden
Who
Lund University; Kristina Lång

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from The Lancet Oncology and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2023-0079: “Swedish MASAI trial finds AI-supported mammography reading cuts workload by 44%.” wheresthe.ai, 2 Aug 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/se-masai-ai-mammography-trial-2023-08/ (source: The Lancet Oncology).

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