These AI projects are improving cancer screening and outcomes

Microsoft is using machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to help the world's leading oncologists figure out the most effective, individualized cancer treatment for their patients. An innovation, named Inner Eye is pairing ML with computer vision to give radiologists a more detailed understanding of how their patients' tumours are progressing. It is being used by Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge to develop AI models that use the hospital's own data to automatically highlight tumours and healthy organs on patient scans. BC Cancer and Microsoft Canada are collaborating on "Single Cell Genomics" which will enable medical professionals to view the genomes of single cancerous cells. This level of detail will enable targeted and specific combinations of treatments for individuals and allow oncologists to predict how individual cells within a patient's tumour will respond to chemotherapy.