In November 2013, more than 100 patients with cancer – including pancreatic, breast, liver and brain tumours – embarked on clinical trials involving BPM 31510, a drug discovered by an algorithm. The story of BPM 31510 begins with the extraction of biological data from healthy and cancerous tissue samples from over 1,000 patients. This data…
Category: AI
Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Doctors Find Breast Cancer Risk 30 Times Faster
AI is once again proving its worth in assisting humans in their quest for healthy living. Forbes reports on progress of AI in diagnosing breast cancer, this tome at Houston Methodist Research Institute, a hospital in Texas. researchers from Houston Methodist have developed AI software that can interpret mammogram results a full 30 times quicker…
Google’s Calico Appoints Daphne Koller as Chief Computing Officer
Google’s billion dollar life extension division, Calico, today announced Daphne Koller will be building a Computational Biology and Machine Learning Team in her role as Chief Computing Officer. She will build a team focused on developing powerful computational and machine learning tools for analyzing biological and medical data sets. She and her team will work…
Hospitals start using Watson supercomputer to diagnose cancer
A recent article from Stat reports on the use of the IBM Watson supercomputer in assisting in diagnosis and treatment of cancer. From the article: The goal is to use Watson’s natural language processing to mine the medical literature and a patient’s records to provide treatment advice. And this month the Watson computer system is…