Artificial Intelligence - Changing the way we diagnose cancer

Big thanks to technological advances in areas like genetics, imaging, cancer is now more likely to be caught at an earlier stage than it was decades ago. Though, the accuracy in medical imaging diagnosis is still low, with the professionals witnessing 20-30 percent wrong negatives in chest X-rays and mammographies. AI can prevent this, and the fact that healthcare is data-rich is an added benefit. The more data visible to them, the more likely they can uncover the hidden patterns inside it that can be used to perform diagnosis. Over time, many machine learning algorithms have been introduced, but traditional forms, like logistic regression, have demonstrated the most usefulness in clinical oncology research.