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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model for Prostate Cancer Shows Feasibility in Clinical Setting

Think AI is still out of reach for most clinicians? A new NCI study examines the feasibility of bringing AI to the clinic, using a publicly available platform and an AI-assisted model for detecting prostate cancer on MRI scans.

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Study Helps Further Define the Role for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Detecting Breast Cancer

What’s the best role for AI in screening for breast cancer? This study, partially funded by NCI, helps define that role by looking at how well AI performed in finding hard-to-detect cancers.

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Researchers Use AI-based Modeling to Assess Treatment and Predict Survival from Glioblastoma

Want to use your data science skills to find better cancer treatments? See how these NCI-funded researchers working with artificial intelligence (AI) used information from a survival model to refine treatment for glioblastoma.

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NCI-Funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tool Powers Up Spatial Transcriptomics

A new spatial transcriptomics tool, called Spotiphy, can help you visualize gene distribution patterns across entire tissue sections, giving you a more complete picture of the tumor and its microenvironment.

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NCI-Funded Pipeline Applied to Microscopic Images Helps Manage Micronuclei

See how a new AI-driven tool can help you measure micronuclei and similar structures to study their underlying biology, enabling you to more efficiently measure and characterize these tiny structures.

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The Making of a New Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Approach to Head and Neck Cancer

See how NCI-funded researchers built on previous studies to create a new model (called SMuRF) for head and neck cancer. Their model offers a new, more human-like, perspective to assessing head and neck cancer.

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NCI Clinical Trials Get a Boost from Public-Private Partnership

Read about a new collaboration between NCI and a company that develops AI-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. NCI will be applying these tools to help advance research into personalized treatment for patients with cancer.

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NCI-Supported Study Uses Machine Learning (ML) to Help You Tap into the TCGA

Thanks to this NCI-funded study, you now have a host of top-performing predictive models, data types, and training algorithms to help you better classify your patient samples.

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FusOn-pLM: A Fusion Oncoprotein-Specific Language Model for Predicting Drug-Resistant Mutations

Do you work with fusion oncoproteins? Explore a new protein language model (pLM) that NCI-funded researchers trained on fusion oncoproteins to advance discoveries in fusion-driven cancers!

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model “SCORPIO” Uses Blood Test to Predict Immunotherapy Benefits

Thanks to a new AI model called “SCORPIO,” you may someday be able to use a simple blood test and routine clinical information to decide which patients will benefit from immunotherapy.

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