Deep-learning tech reveals personal ID of cancer cells

Just as every handwritten signature is unique, so is every cancerous tumor. Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have now used artificial intelligence and big datato decode the unique signatures of certain cancer cells. The resulting technology – dubbed a "computerized pathologist" –could significantly boost development of personalized cancer treatments. The researchers worked with digital images from breast-cancer biopsy samples. The new technology, described earlier this summer in the medical journal JAMA, extracts molecular information from the cell shape (morphology) and its environment.