A new Department of Veterans Affairs study is working on the development of an artificial intelligence algorithm that can predict aggressive prostate cancer.
Doctors believe Artificial Intelligence is now saving lives, after a major advancement in breast cancer screenings. A.I. is detecting early signs of the disease, in some cases years before doctors would find the cancer on a traditional scan.that can predict aggressive prostate cancer. It will analyze data from more than 5,000 veterans who were diagnosed with high-risk prostate cancer and have undergone initial treatment.
\The United States Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters is seen on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Washington, D.C. "No one else has incorporated socioeconomic conditions into a predictive model for high-risk prostate cancer, but we’ve seen multiple studies showing how they are," Dr. Carolyn Clancy, assistant Under Secretary for Health for Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks, said in a statement.
Radiologist Val J. Lowe, director of the cancer imaging program at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, compares a CT scan to a choline C-11 PET scan of a patient with recurrent prostate cancer at the Mayo Clinic medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013."A digital repository for data will allow for development, testing and validation of prognostic classifiers that could positively impact clinical management of veterans with high-risk prostate cancer," Dr.
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