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In the news | Cancer Research UK Cambridge News
AI speeds up cancer treatment
Project InnerEye, a collaboration between Addenbrooke’s and Microsoft Research, uses AI and machine learning to transform radiotherapy treatment planning. Doctors at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge aim to drastically cut cancer waiting times using artificial intelligence (AI) to automate lengthy radiotherapy…
Project InnerEye evaluation shows how AI can augment and accelerate clinicians’ ability to perform radiotherapy planning 13 times faster
| Ozan Oktay, Anton Schwaighofer, David Carter, Melissa Bristow, Javier Alvarez-Valle, and Aditya Nori
Up to half of the population in the United States (opens in new tab) and United Kingdom (opens in new tab) will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. Of those, half will be treated with radiotherapy…
Project InnerEye open-source deep learning toolkit: Democratizing medical imaging AI
| Javier Alvarez-Valle and Gregory J. Moore, MD, PhD
For over a decade, the Project InnerEye (opens in new tab) team at Microsoft Research Cambridge (opens in new tab) has been developing state-of-the-art machine learning methods for the automatic, quantitative analysis of three-dimensional medical images. An important application is…
In the news | Microsoft Stories
Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available,…
In the news | LinkedIn
The first 200 days of COVID-19
A Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it [1]. Santayana forgot to mention that those that do remember are condemned to watch others repeat it.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Mobilizing AI for Health to fight against COVID-19
Given the urgency the COVID-19 virus has created, we are mobilizing our AI for Health initiative to focus on helping those on the front lines of research of COVID-19. We’re focusing our efforts in five specific areas where we think…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Using AI to advance the health of people and communities around the world
The health of people and communities around the world has been improving over time. For example, the steep decline in child and maternal mortality is a key indicator of positive momentum. However, progress has not been equal across the globe, and…
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…