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Machine Learning and the InnerEye for Cancer Treatment with Dr. Antonio Criminisi
Episode 13, February 21, 2018 – Today, Dr. Criminisi talks about Project InnerEye, an innovative machine learning tool that helps radiologists identify and analyze 3-D images of cancerous tumors. He also gives us some insight into his work on deep…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft looks to healthcare partners for ways to bring AI benefits to cancer patients
A team of artificial intelligence experts at Microsoft’s Cambridge, U.K., research lab has spent more than a decade looking at ways that AI could be used to make cancer treatment more targeted and effective.
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From Kinect to InnerEye
No one single technology exists in a vacuum. Microsoft’s Kinect may have suffered an ignoble slide into obscurity following its troubled pairing with the Xbox One. But its underlying principles, technology and the research that went into developing it now…
In the news | BBC News
New scan aims to aid tumour detection
Microsoft Research says it is close to perfecting software that can measure tumours accurately in 3D from normal Computerised Tomography (CT) scans. The job of determining the extent of tumours is currently done by hand with limited accuracy. The “Inner…
In the news | Microsoft Story Labs
How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to “solve” cancer
Although individual projects vary widely, Microsoft’s overarching philosophy toward solving cancer focuses on two basic approaches: one is rooted in the idea that cancer and other biological processes are information processing systems, and the other is more data-driven.
InnerEye: Visual Recognition in the Hospital
The neurosurgeon hovers over the patient, preparing to excise a life-threatening brain tumor. In this delicate operation, there is no margin for error: the tumor needs to be cut out with minimal damage to the surrounding healthy tissue. By using…