Director of National Cancer Institute discusses future of AI in imaging, cancer care

Officially sworn in this past October as the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Ned Sharpless, MD, believes that artificial intelligence will "probably" be in the future of cancer care. Sharpless, whose professional experience in cancer research spans across decades, said in a recent interview with STAT News that AI will be most helpful when treating a surplus number of patients or using genomically guided therapy for treatment. Specifically, an AI tool to help radiologists or pathologists to read chest x-rays and other images will most likely be an integral technology in the future of oncology, Sharpless explained.