Submitted by Dr Hayley B. Wo... on Thu, 22/07/2021 - 17:13
Raj Jena (Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), CRUK Cambridge Centre Neuro-Oncology Programme and CRUK RadNet Cambridge) has been successful in the latest round of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health and Care Award, winning government funding to develop AI technologies to improve diagnosis and speed up life-saving cancer treatment. Raj, is leading a collaboration between CUH and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust to leverage Microsoft Project InnerEye’s open-source AI toolkit to differentiate tumour and healthy tissue on cancer scans, a process called ‘segmenting’, prior to radiotherapy treatment. They will evaluate how this could save clinicians’ time, reduce the time between the scan and commencing treatment, and scale the technology to four NHS Trusts.
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