AI system that mimics human gaze could be used to detect cancer

A cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) system that can accurately predict the areas of an image where a person is most likely to look has been created by scientists at Cardiff University. Based on the mechanics of the human brain and its ability to distinguish between different parts of an image, the researchers say the novel system more accurately represents human vision than anything that has gone before. Applications of the new system range from robotics, multimedia communication and video surveillance to automated image editing and finding tumors in medical images. The Multimedia Computing Research Group at Cardiff University are now planning to test the system by helping radiologists to find lesions within medical images, with the overall goal of improving the speed, accuracy and sensitivity of medical diagnostics. The system has been presented in the journal Neurocomputing.