AI Helps Detect Prostate Cancer - NVIDIA Developer News Center

Prostate cancer is expected to be the leading source of new cancer for men and the second most frequent cause of death after lung cancer. It is also cancer that is very hard to detect, and small lesions can comprise just a fraction of 1% of the tissue surface. To help solve the problem, researchers from Cornell University and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a cancer treatment and research institution in New York City, developed a deep learning-based approach that more accurately detects cancer. Using the center's biopsy dataset, the team developed a state-of-the-art system that can be considered clinically relevant, the researchers said. "Until recently, studies relied on datasets in the order of few hundreds of slides which are not enough to train a model that can work at scale in the clinic. Here, we have gathered a dataset consisting of 12,160 slides, two orders of magnitude larger than previous datasets in pathology and equivalent to 25 times the pixel count of the entire ImageNet dataset," the researchers stated in their research paper.