AI Helps Surgeons Improve Brain Tumor Diagnosis NVIDIA Blog

If there's ever a time you want to spend less time under the knife, it's during brain surgery. Artificial intelligence could help doctors diagnose brain tumors more quickly and more accurately, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School and Harvard University. "Our goal is to develop an algorithm that approaches the performance of a neuropathologist at diagnosis during an operation," said Dr. Daniel Orringer, first author of the study in Nature Biomedical Engineering and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Michigan Medicine. In their experiments on more than 100 brain tissue samples, the researchers used deep learning to detect the presence of a tumor and classify it into one of several broad categories. The algorithm analyzes tissue from a laser imaging technique the researchers developed called stimulated Raman histology, or SRH.