Artificial Intelligence May Aid in Colorectal Cancer Detection

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify cancer is an emerging technology. Many research studies have leveraged the power of AI to detect cancer and have demonstrated how the integration of AI technology in cancer care could improve the accuracy and speed of diagnosis, and lead to better health outcomes. Now, researchers from Tulane, Central South University in China, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Temple University, and Florida State University have collaborated to determine whether AI could be a tool to help pathologists detect colorectal cancer. Their new study is published in the journal Nature Communications in a paper titled, "Accurate recognition of colorectal cancer with semi-supervised deep learning on pathological images." "Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer death in Europe and America," the researchers wrote.