New artificial intelligence system to better detect and grade prostate cancer - Times of India

LONDON: Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based method that is as good at identifying and grading prostate cancer as world-leading uro-pathologists. The AI-system has the potential to solve one of the bottlenecks in today's prostate cancer histopathology by providing more accurate diagnosis and better treatment decisions, according to the study published in The Lancet Oncology journal. "Our results show that it is possible to train an AI-system to detect and grade prostate cancer on the same level as leading experts," said Martin Eklund, an associate professor at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. "This has the potential to significantly reduce the workload of uro-pathologists and allow them to focus on the most difficult cases," Eklund said. A problem in today's prostate pathology is that there is a certain degree of subjectivity in the assessments of the biopsies, researchers said. Different pathologists can reach different conclusions even though they are studying the same samples, they said.