Our 2010 research paper ‘Malignancy detection in digital mammograms’ wasn’t particularly surprising. This paper found mammograms failed to detect upwards of 30 per cent of breast cancers in Australia, a finding consistent with results in other countries.

What we didn’t realise at the time was that the findings would help researchers at the University of Sydney develop a tool that now helps clinicians around the world diagnose a host of diseases more accurately.