The key goals of Astronomical AI are to create an AI tool that reduces waiting times for the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and improve the workflow of the Oncology department. With this in mind, I came across a BBC Breakfast Segment which was followed up with a BBC article titled: 'Cancer care delays: How bad are they in your area?' The segment and article highlight a rise in long waits for cancer therapy in the last 4 years. The number of people waiting for cancer treatment in the UK has doubled since 2018, the number of people waiting for more than 62 days from referral to treatment (62 days being the maximum target wait time from the NHS, from urgent cancer referral to treatment being started) has risen to over 69,000. This is resulting in patients dying from long delays between diagnosis and treatment.

A new class of extremely large telescopes has evolved to collect vast amounts of data; The volume of data collected from an entire survey ten years ago can now be collected in one night. One example of these new generation telescopes is fifth Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), launched in 2020 and slated to collect optical and infrared spectra for more than six million objects during its five-year lifetime [1]. Human inspection is wholly inadequate for dealing with millions of pieces of fuzzy and distorted images. Even traditional, centralized data processing systems can't keep up with the petabytes of astronomical data emerging from new surveys. The solution is a new field called Astro information, which astronomy with machine learning and AI to search for habitable exoplanets, estimate red shifts, and classify galaxies and supernovas [2].

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