Just What The Software Ordered: This AI Could Help Finnish Doctors Spot Cancer - GE Reports

In 2014, three young men from far-flung parts of the world teamed up in Finland with an audacious plan that could soon help doctors save more lives, not to mention money, and chart a new course for healthcare. Oguzhan Gencoglu, who hails from Turkey, is an AI and machine-learning whiz currently working on his Ph.D. in computer science, Hung Ta is a Vietnamese math prodigy with a doctorate in biotechnology, and Timo Heikkinen is a Finnish entrepreneur with a software industry background. Together, they launched Top Data Science, an AI startup based in Helsinki that's developing software that can make sense of millions of data points, alert doctors to unseen medical patterns, help them diagnose disease and track patients during treatment. Their "intelligent" code is already analyzing thousands of MRI images and could one day help radiologists at the Helsinki University Central Hospital diagnose prostate cancer. Another set of algorithms is crunching data from the hospital's intensive care unit and using it to identify high-risk cases that may soon need urgent medical care, as well as flag patients who are progressing well and who could be released to standard hospital care.