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Nature | Vol 586 | 15 October 2020 | E19

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Addendum: International


evaluation of an AI


system for breast cancer


screening


https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2679-9


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Scott Mayer McKinney, Marcin Sieniek, Varun Godbole,
Jonathan Godwin, Natasha Antropova, Hutan Ashrafian, Trevor Back,
Mary Chesus, Greg S. Corrado, Ara Darzi, Mozziyar Etemadi,
Florencia Garcia-Vicente, Fiona J. Gilbert, Mark Halling-Brown,
Demis Hassabis, Sunny Jansen, Alan Karthikesalingam,
Christopher J. Kelly, Dominic King, Joseph R. Ledsam,
David Melnick, Hormuz Mostofi, Lily Peng, Joshua Jay Reicher,
Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Richard Sidebottom,
Mustafa Suleyman, Daniel Tse, Kenneth C. Young, Jeffrey De Fauw
& Shravya Shetty


To assist with the replication of our results, we have expanded the Sup-
plementary Methods of our Article to provide more detail on how our
deep learning system was trained. This includes additional optimi-
zation hyperparameters, as well as a more exhaustive description of
the data augmentation strategy. Revised Supplementary Methods
are presented in the Supplementary Information to this Addendum.
Please also see the accompanying Matters Arising Comment
(Haibe-Kains et al., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41686-020-2766-y)^1 and
Reply (McKinney et al., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41686-020-2767-x)^2.
In addition, the middle initial of author Greg Corrado should be
‘S’ rather than ‘C’. This error has been corrected online.


Supplementary Information is available in the online version of this Amendment.



  1. Haibe-Kains, B. et al. Transparency and reproducibility in artificial intelligence. Nature
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2766-y (2020).

  2. McKinney, S. M. et al. Reply to: Transparency and reproducibility in artificial intelligence.
    Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2767-x (2020).


Addendum to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1799-6


Published online 01 January 2020

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