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Background: Mammography based breast cancer screening has proven to reduce mortality in women, but is found to be less effective in women with dense breasts. Due to this, different regulatory bodies insisted on the need for having density information on mammography reports in recent years. On the other hand, Thermalytix, a computer aided breast cancer detection system with thermal imaging, is emerging as a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based functional imaging that is showing promising results on dense breasts. We propose a multi-modal AI based screening modality that uses both X-Ray mammograms and thermal scans. This is the first ever pilot study that leverages the complementary nature of two imaging modalities.

Materials and Methods: 181 women were invited to undergo both mammography and Thermalytix imaging in 2 sites. Mammography images were analyzed by the MammoAI module to …