Swansea University Uses Artificial Intelligence to Detect Cancer

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Swansea University Uses Artificial Intelligence to Detect Cancer

January 24, 2016 by evelinacohn

Swansea University Uses Artificial Intelligence to Detect Cancer. Reporter: Evelina Cohn Budu Ph.D.

Swansea University is a well known and respected University in UK, a research -led institution with an excellent reputation for the quality of its student experience.

Their new type of research involving algorithms and mathematics in evaluation and identification of cancer cells.

Prof Paul Rees in collaboration with specialists from US, Germany, London and Newcastle, from the University College of Engineering, conducted a research in which the technology of fingerprint recognition software was taught to recognize cells and pinpoint them. “The algorithm recognizes the specific cells of interest by giving examples of the cells to be identified ” he said. After learning how the cells look like, the algorithm can identify target cells in a new population.
Along with these characteristics, the group of researchers can identify the age of a cell, which is very important to determine the cycle of a certain cell in a certain moment.

The research is an international collaboration with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard In Cambridge Massachusetts USA, Hemholtz Zentrum in Munich, The Francis Crick Institute in London and Newcastle Upon Tyne University . The group’s paper entitled “Label -free cell cycle analysis for high-throughput imaging flow cytometry”, was published in Nature Communications on January 7, 2016.

Prof. Dr. Fabian Theis of the Helmholz Zentrum Munich , expert in “Computational Modelling in Biology” said that this discovery can open up a completely new perspective in responding to different research questions, not only cell analysis.