Using artificial intelligence to help humans

In the right hands, artificial intelligence can do a lot more than beat chess masters or drive a vehicle. Four years ago, Dr. Nidhal C. Bouaynaya founded MRIMath, LLC, with Dr. Hassan Fathallah-Shaykh, a neuro-oncologist and mathematician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham - School of Medicine. Together, they developed an AI platform to help physicians detect brain tumor growth about three years earlier than the standard of care. In one example, Bouaynaya said MRIMath detected tumor growth in a patient whose doctors believed had been stabilized. "We showed them that, according to our AI, the tumor was growing and they had better do something about it," Bouaynaya said.