Artificial Intelligence Boosts Clinical Trial Enrollment in Lung Cancer - Cancer Therapy Advisor

Results of a study evaluating the use of artificial intelligence for matching oncology patients with clinical trials showed a 58.4% increase in trial enrollment compared with traditional screening methods. The findings from this study were presented at the IASLC 2019 World Conference on Lung Cancer hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer in Barcelona, Spain. IBM Watson Health's Clinical Trials Matching (CTM) is a system that is trained to abstract patient- and clinical trial-specific data from a variety of sources and harnesses machine learning to find clinical trials that are appropriate for a given patient. In this study, CTM was trained and used to match patients at an academic oncology outpatient clinic to 1 or more of the approximately 42 available clinical trials in lung cancer. The matches generated by CTM were subsequently validated by clinical trial coordinators, and the validated matches were provided to oncologists prior to the patients' clinic visits.