Using AI to understand the spread of cancer

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This illustration shows metastases scattered throughout the body tissue. Using t
This illustration shows metastases scattered throughout the body tissue. Using the DeepMACT algorithm, even individual cancer cells can be found in tissue that has been made transparent using a special procedure. Image: Helmholtz Zentrum München
New deep learning algorithm DeepMACT detects the smallest metastases

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the LMU Munich have developed a new algorithm that automatically detects metastases. The new technology uses artificial intelligence (AI) and even finds single disseminated cancer cells in the body of mice. In this way, the spread mechanisms of different types of cancer can be investigated in more detail.

More than 90 percent of cancer patients die of distal metastases rather than as a direct result of the primary tumor. Cancer metastases usually develop from single disseminated cancer cells, which evade the body’s immune surveillance system. ...

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