Cancer Detection

AI May Be More Prone to Errors in Image-Based Diagnoses Than Clinicians

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have found that deep neural networks (DNNs) make mistakes in image-based medical diagnoses that humans are less likely to make, and they hypothesize that these mistakes may indicate that...

PA Health System Develops ML Model to Interpret Cancer Mutations

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a machine-learning (ML) platform to help clinicians identify cancer mutations and interpret their potential significance...

Machine-Learning Models Outperform Clinicians in Predicting Cancer Growth

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have developed lymph node metastasis (LNM) prediction models based on natural language processing (NLP) and machine-learning (ML) algorithms. In a study published in JMIR Medical...

Swarm Learning Models to Predict Cancer Biomarkers Outperform Other AI

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in Nature explored swarm learning (SL) models as predictors of molecular alterations directly from standard histopathology images and hypothesized that these models could be a...

AI Can Help Cut Colorectal Cancer Death Rates, Reduce Costs

by Shania Kennedy

A study published in The Lancet Digital Health indicates that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) during screening colonoscopies has the potential to prevent colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence,...

Machine-Learning Models Can Help Detect Early-Stage Cancer

by Shania Kennedy

A recently published diagnostic modeling study published in JAMA Network Open successfully developed machine-learning algorithms to predict occult nodal metastasis in patients with early-stage oral...