A new study led by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of Michigan suggests that AI technology can help doctors make better decisions in cancer treatment, but it’s not reliable alone.
The study highlights some of the challenges of how doctors and AI technology work together.
The research, published in Nature Communications, focused on AI-assisted radiotherapy for two types of cancer: lung cancer and liver cancer.
Key findings found that AI helped doctors make more consistent decisions, reducing the variability in treatment approaches among different doctors.
However, technology doesn’t always influence doctors’ final choices. In some cases, doctors disagree with the AI’s final recommendations and make decisions based on their own experience and patient-specific factors.
To test the effects of AI, researchers tested doctors by asking them to make treatment decisions for cancer patients, first without the help of AI and then with suggestions made by AI.
