Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis - IEEE Spectrum

Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis - IEEE Spectrum: Cancer pathology today involves examining tissue samples under a microscope to make diagnoses. But tissues and disease markers can vary widely, so it's common for pathologists to seek a second opinion or conduct more tests. Paige's technology streamlines the process by digitizing it. The company has exclusive rights to tens of thousands of already-analyzed pathology slides from Memorial Sloan Kettering and has scanned them into its system to create a database of high-resolution images. The company's proprietary machine-learning system is trained to detect patterns in the images that correlate with disease prognosis. When a new tissue scan comes in, the system can classify it based on its training. Rather than phoning a colleague or doing extra testing, a pathologist can use the AI-based system to make decisions more quickly and easily, Grady says.

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