A team of computer scientists at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, has achieved what was thought to be impossible only a few years ago. They used AI to extract vital information from a breast cancer biopsy in seconds rather than weeks.
They’re harnessing the power of deep learning to discover whether a particular protein is preventing the patient’s own body from attacking a tumor.
They have trained a computer to determine the presence of PD-L1, a protein that effectively provides “password protection” for the tumor, and stops the immune system from attacking it.
Armed with that knowledge, doctors can go on to prescribe immunotherapy drugs that are able to break the password and allows the body’s defenses to kick in.
The researchers taught the AI to identify PD-L1 by showing it biopsies from thousands of patients.
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