Artificial Intelligence Now Diagnoses Lung Cancer as well as Pathologists

Lung cancer is the leading case of cancer death in the western world. Pathologists examine tissue slides under the microscope and classify them to determine grade and treatment for a tumor. But every cancer is different, so reading these slides can be hard. Can artificial intelligence help out? Recently, deep learning has produced a set of image analysis techniques that automatically extract relevant features called Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), transforming the field of computer vision.