Comment by honksillet

Some background info on mammograms (x-rays of the breast). For whatever reason breast cancer is highly political in the US. As a result there are federal laws regarding communication of results and scheduling follow-up exams that apply to mammograms only and no other radilody or other medical test. To comply with these laws radiologists set up a uniform grading system with highly specific jargon. As a result the formatting and language used in mammogram reads by radiologist will be much more consistent than, say, a chest x-ray screening for lung cancer. This makes mammograms the ideal studies to be tackled by AI