Doctors Are Turning to Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Cancer Patients
Precision medicine is changing how cancer is diagnosed.
Genetic testing gets most of the attention when it comes to matching cancer patients to specific treatments. But the vast majority of diagnostic information used in selecting a cancer treatment today comes not from those tests, but from under the microscope of the pathologist, who examines tissue biopsies taken during surgery. Stanley Robboy, vice-chair for diagnostic pathology at the Duke's David H. Freedman about how artificial intelligence is improving diagnosesâand why some doctors are reluctant to embrace it.
