Using AI in the fight against cancer - Digital Journal

Artificial intelligence, in the form of queried databases, is helping to tackle certain cancers. Algorithms have been developed to cross-reference a patient's medical records, habits and genetic information to spot any early signs of cancer. With cancer, the key problem is about the late diagnosis of cancer and the argument of using artificial intelligence is to identify those members of the population who are at greatest risk and to then bring them in earlier for screening. A pilot has been developed in the U.K., where the focus is particularly with prostate, lung and bowel cancer, and then you can undertake procedures like surgery or administer treatment sooner in order to increase survival rates. Similarly, a U.S. study, published in 2022, found that a machine learning algorithm trained to predict cancer outcomes zeroed in to finds the prostate on male patients and successfully outlines any cancer-suspicious areas without any human supervision.