CANBERRA, May 18 (NNN-AAP) – A team of researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, to more quickly and accurately classify brain tumours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a study published yesterday, the team demonstrated that, their deep learning model – DEPLOY – can accurately classify brain tumours into 10 major subtypes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AI tool analyses microscopic pictures of a patient’s brain tissue to make its classification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Danh-Tai Hoang, the co-lead of the project, from the Biological Data Science Institute at ANU, said that, the current gold standard for diagnosing and categorising brain tumours – a process called DNA methylation-based profiling – can take several weeks and is not widely available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By comparison, the AI tool can deliver results within hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Remarkably, DEPLOY achieved an unprecedented accuracy of 95 percent,” Hoang said, in a media release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Furthermore, when given a subset of 309 particularly difficult to classify samples, DEPLOY was able to provide a diagnosis that was more clinically relevant than what was initially provided by pathologists.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DEPLOY was trained and validated on a dataset of approximately 4,000 patients from the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoang said, it could be used in the future, to add to a pathologist’s initial diagnosis or even prompt a re-evaluation when it finds disparities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The researchers believe it could eventually be used to help classify other types of cancer.– NNN-AAP <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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