4 September, 2024
READWRITE.COM – An artificial intelligence developed by Harvard Medical School can diagnose a variety of cancers with almost 94 percent accuracy, its creators say.
Named CHIEF (Clinical Histopathology Imaging Evaluation Foundation), researchers say it was tested on 19 types of cancer, setting it apart from other models.
What can Harvard’s AI do?
According to the scientists, CHIEF is much more flexible than other medical AIs and has the ability to perform a wider range of tasks.
As well as diagnosing cancer, CHIEF can predict how a patient might react to a certain treatment.
Kun-Hsing Yu, assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, said:
“Our ambition was to create a nimble, versatile ChatGPT-like AI platform that can perform a broad range of cancer evaluation tasks.
“Our model turned out to be very useful across multiple tasks related to cancer detection, prognosis, and treatment response across multiple cancers.”
CHIEF was trained on 15 million unlabeled images. That was followed by 60,000 images …
