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05/30/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Chinese AI able to diagnose and identify cancerous prostate samples as well as human doctors

A Chinese research team has come up with an artificial intelligence (AI) to help them diagnose prostate biopsies and identify possible cancers. According to an article on SciMex.org, the AI is as good as a human pathologist. The learning software is said to be able to grade the malignancy of the cancer with significant accuracy. […]

04/15/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Software-powered medical diagnosis already more reliable than “subjective” diagnoses from human doctors

British researchers have developed a new imaging technology for analyzing tumor biopsies. Furthermore, they claim their Digistain technology enjoys greater reliability compared to subjective diagnoses by human health professionals, according to an article in ScienceDaily. The Imperial College London (Imperial) research team promised that their new method can reduce the subjectivity and variability often encountered when […]

10/22/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Reducing unnecessary surgeries: New tech identifies lesions most likely to develop into breast cancer

Thousands of women each year subject themselves to painful and invasive surgeries to get rid of breast lesions which turn out to be benign, defeating the purpose of the surgeries in the first place. To avoid occurrences of these unnecessary surgeries, scientists are working on making current detection and diagnostic tools more effective and accurate. […]

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