Machine learning breakthrough could revolutionize medicine - University of Alberta

Computing science researcher Siamak Ravanbakhsh (middle), with his co-supervisors Russell Greiner (left) and David Wishart. Ravanbakhsh has developed a computer system called Bayesil that could dramatically improve diagnosis and treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases. Siamak Ravanbakhsh, who recently completed his PhD in computing science at the University of Alberta and whose research was recently published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, said Bayesil, the computer application resulting from this breakthrough, is pretty easy to explain in basic terms. "There is this technology called NMR spectrometry, which uses some of the same physical principles as MRI. This technology is very cool, because it can determine the concentration of certain compounds in your body," he said.