Artificial Intelligence will be used in detecting cancer.
Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), India’s biggest cancer hospital, has started using Artificial Intelligence in the treatment of cancer.
The hospital is utilising deep learning to create a cancer-specific algorithm that will help in early-stage cancer detection. It has incorporated data from 60,000 patients into the biobank.
The main aim of this project is to create a repository comprising radiology and pathology images, outcome data, treatment specifics, and additional metadata.
The multi-institutional project is funded by the Department of Biotechnology in association with IIT-Bombay, RGCIRC-New Delhi, AIIMS-New Delhi, and PGIMER-Chandigarh.
This has been designed for the training, validation, and rigorous testing of AI algorithms.
AI plays a key role in cancer detection by emulating the human brain’s information processing.
To recognize unique features of various cancers, AI analyses radiological and pathological images.
The creation of a tumour image bank includes segmenting and annotating images, outlining tumours, identifying different features, etc.
This will help TMH to develop algorithms for different tumours and treatment responses will be assessed directly from images.
