AI Detects Brain Cancer from a Blood Test

Imagine being able to know the probability of whether a persistent headache that you are experiencing is a symptom of something much worse through a simple blood test. Researchers affiliated with ClinSpec Diagnostics Limited, a spin-off from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, and their colleagues developed patented technology that can detect brain cancer from blood samples. Using an innovative combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and spectroscopy, the U.K. researchers developed a method to detect brain cancer from a blood biopsy, and published their study on October 8, 2019 in Nature Communications. Headaches are one of the most common symptoms of brain tumors, according to the American Brain Tumor Association. But while headaches are very common, brain cancer is not.