How Artificial Intelligence Could Stop Cancer

Researchers have developed a series of AI-based systems that can interpret pathology images and identify the presence and absence of metastatic cancer. The AI systems could lead to new and improved diagnostic methods and treatment. A group of researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School in Boston have teamed up to develop new diagnostic methods based on artificial intelligence (AI). Humayun Irshad, PhD research fellow at Harvard Medical School and one of the lead authors on the research, says that their group is using all kinds of different computational methods to improve diagnostic techniques. "We are developing robust and efficient computational methods to improve diagnostic and prognostic assessment of pathological samples," Irshad says.