I don't understand why this is useful. The starting point is a mammogram. Are there a lot of people who are able to get a mammogram performed, but not able to get it analyzed?
I applaud the author. These tools seems like a great addition to health care providers. I'm just less sure about when you would use it directly as a patient.
1) Radiologists' experience on reading is not the same. The reading from a 5+ years experience radiologist sometime could be quite different from the one with a one or two years experience radiologist. As a matter of fact, due to the complicated issues with mammogram reading, some inexperienced radiologist don't get mammogram reading tasks when they started working in the clinics.
2) 2nd opinion sometime could be quite useful and important for the patients. By providing a utility for patients to have certain awareness on their mammogram, apart from the readings from their radiologists alone, could be useful, especially for people who are from remote area which lacks of experienced radiologists.
3) Even in big cities which has more medical resources (like big cities in China), due to the amount of patient, usually each radiologist only has about 30s to read a mammogram image (We have been told by multiple doctors and they could confirm that.). Mis-reading is very common due to the work-load. So a utility like this could help on finding or at lease warning doctors on possible missed.
There are other reasoning behind this but above are things on top of my head right now.
I applaud the author. These tools seems like a great addition to health care providers. I'm just less sure about when you would use it directly as a patient.