This AI is learning to spot brain tumors – without infringing privacy

Intel and Penn Medicine are working on a huge, institution-spanning AI that will help identify brain tumors but without overstepping on strict medical privacy rules. The cross-location AI will use a technique known as "federated learning" as it spans 29 different healthcare and research institutions. Training artificial intelligences with data sets of illnesses, so that they can act as a filter on large numbers of cases, has been shown effective in a number of ways. However the downside is that for the most effective performance those data sets need to be considerable. An individual healthcare institution or research lab would likely struggle to feed a developing machine learning computer with all the information it requires.