Artificial intelligence has also brought hope to cancer.
In the study, whose findings were published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, scientists from the Genome Editing Center (CRG), Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Basque Regional University (UPV/EHU) and the Foundation for Biophysics of Biscay (FBB) in Spain and the Southern Medical University in China noted that AINU can observe changes in cells 5,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
The researchers reported that they uploaded nano-resolution images of many cell nuclei in different states to AINU, and the artificial intelligence tool was able to detect cancer cells and viral infections by comparing the images.
“With the help of AINU, we can immediately observe the smallest changes in the cell nucleus,” said Ignacio Arganda Carreras, a research associate at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Basque Regional University and one of the authors of the article. He noted that the detection of infection takes time because doctors make a diagnosis based on visible symptoms or larger changes observed in the body.
There are some obstacles in front of AINU
While researchers state that AINU makes it easier to detect cancer and infections in the cell nucleus, they note that there are some economic and technical obstacles to the use of the artificial intelligence tool.
One of the obstacles is that obtaining the nano-resolution images used in AINU is a very expensive process, while the fact that the artificial intelligence tool can only analyze a few cells at a time is also seen as a technical problem because it requires speed in diagnosis.
