The false positive paradox explains why you misjudge risk

You have probably encountered the base rate fallacy, and it probably fooled you. Part mathematical paradox and part cognitive ...
Medical Xpress

Retrospective study shows AI detects more breast cancers with fewer false positives

Using artificial intelligence (AI), breast radiologists in Denmark have improved breast cancer screening performance and reduced the rate of false-positive findings. Results of the study were ...
Medscape

False-Positive Mammography Results Linked to Reduced Rates of Future Screenings

Women who received false-positive mammography results were less likely to return for future screenings. Researchers analyzed more than three million screening mammograms from more than one million ...
ascopubs.org

Patient body fat and AI ensemble technique and the influence on false-positive rate in AI second observer for colorectal cancer detection.

Risk factors for relapse based on the molecular profiling of Japanese patients with stage II colorectal cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
Becker's Hospital Review

Electronic surveillance framework from UPMC could reduce false-positive diagnoses

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC’s electronic surveillance framework for hospitalized children could, if deployed elsewhere, reduce the rate of false-positive diagnoses of serious health ...
MedPage Today

Single HIV RNA Test Delivered False Positives With Long-Acting Cabotegravir PrEP

A single positive HIV viral load test often falsely identified HIV infection in people who were using long-acting cabotegravir (Apretude) for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), according to results from ...