Google joins Mayo Clinic to use AI for radiotherapy planning - Express Computer

In a bid to fight cancer, Google has collaborated with Mayo Clinic on research to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system that can support physicians, help reduce treatment planning time and improve the efficiency of radiotherapy. In this research partnership, Mayo Clinic and Google Health will work to develop an algorithm to assist clinicians in contouring healthy tissue and organs from tumours, and conduct research to better understand how this technology could be deployed effectively in clinical practice. Mayo Clinic is an international centre of excellence for cancer treatment with world-renowned radiation oncologists. "Google researchers have studied how AI can potentially be used to augment other areas of healthcare -- from mammographies to the early deployment of an AI system that detects diabetic retinopathy using eye scans," said Dr Cian Hughes, Informatics Lead, Google Health. More than 18 million new cancer cases are diagnosed globally each year, and radiotherapy is one of the most common cancer treatments.