AI and breast cancer: How a Canadian lab plans to use new tech to treat patients - National

As artificial intelligence continues to get more impressive, a lab out of Waterloo, Ont., is taking breast cancer research to new heights by working to help patients get proper treatment with their new technology. When patients get breast cancer, they typically undergo a type of imaging, like a magnetic resonance imaging or MRI, to look for cancerous tumors. The Waterloo lab has created "a synthetic correlate diffusion" MRI that is tailored to capture details and properties of cancer in a way that previous MRI systems couldn't. "It could be a very helpful tool to help oncologists and medical doctors to be able to identify and personalize the type of treatment that a cancer patient gets," Alexander Wong, professor and Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging at the University of Waterloo, told Global News. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in Canadian women, according to the Canadian Cancer Society.