NCRI to partner with new AI tech centres across the UK - The National Cancer Research Institute

This month, the government announced £50m of funding towards the creation of five new centres of excellence for digital pathology and imaging that will use artificial intelligence (AI) medical advances to speed up disease diagnosis and improve patient outcomes. NCRI is proud to be partnering with three of these centres – furthering our existing work to accelerate cancer research in pathology and imaging and linking these exciting new AI and machine learning projects to our Partners, patients and the wider cancer research community. The five centres will be based in universities and NHS facilities, and bring together doctors, businesses, AI researchers and academics. Together, they will form a network of centres using AI to develop more intelligent analysis of medical imaging and find new ways to speed up diagnosis of diseases to improve outcomes for patients. The technologies developed at the new centres will offer more personalised treatment for patients while freeing up healthcare professionals to spend more time caring for patients.