NHS taps artificial intelligence to crack cancer detection ZDNet

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) and Intel are working together to make cancer detection more efficient through artificial intelligence. Last week, the University of Warwick, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) alongside Intel said a new collaboration between the groups will push forward the classification of cancer cells "more efficiently and accurately through ground-breaking artificial intelligence." A team of scientists, hosted by the University of Warwick's Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) laboratory and led by Professor Nasir Rajpoot are currently creating a digital repository of known tumor and immune cells based on thousands of human tissue cells. This database of cancer information will then be used by algorithms to recognize these cells automatically. While some types of cancer are more aggressive than others, time is almost always an issue.