Excitement and fear around AI and cognitive computing has reached fever pitch, but are cancer treatment and diagnosis where the technology will have its biggest and most positive impact yet? Reaching this milestone will help unlock the secrets of cancer. However, using the large and complex data sets that sequencing produces to achieve better patient treatment and diagnosis is problematic and demanding. So far, the healthcare sector has only scratched the surface – but this is changing thanks to the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
Source: Beating cancer sooner with data and artificial intelligence | E&T Magazine