Artificial intelligence helps predict cancer symptoms, plan treatment - Health news, Medibulletin

Doctors could get a head start treating cancer thanks to new artificial intelligence (AI) developed at the University of Surrey that is able to predict symptoms and their severity throughout the course of a patient's treatment. In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, published in the PLO One journal, researchers from the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey reported their findings. They wrote how they created two machine learning models that are both able to accurately predict the severity of three common symptoms faced by cancer patients – depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance. All three symptoms are associated with severe reduction in cancer patients' quality of life. "These exciting results show that there is an opportunity for machine learning techniques to make a real difference in the lives of people living with cancer."