Artificial Intelligence based method can help treat brain tumours

According to a new study, researchers claimed to have developed an artificial intelligence-based (AI) method for examination of brain tumours.

In a new advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the health sector, Now AI machine learning methods, carefully trained on standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are more reliable and precise than established radiological methods in the treatment of gliomas.

According to the study, published in The Lancet Oncology, the AI method can help treat brain tumours. Glioma, a type of tumour that occurs in the brain and spinal cord, is common and most malignant of brain tumours in adults.

Glioma tumours often cannot be completely removed by surgery, so Chemotherapy or radiotherapy is only effective to a limited extent because tumours are highly resistant. Therefore, new and precisely validated treatment approaches are urgently needed, the team noted.

Philipp Kickingereder from the Heidelberg University in Germany said, “With this study, we were able to demonstrate the potential of artificial neural networks in radiological diagnostics.” Researcher Klaus Maier Hein said, “We want to advance the technology for automated high-throughput analysis of medical image data and transfer it not only to brain tumours but also to other diseases like brain metastases or multiple sclerosis.”

According to the study, a team of 500 brain tumour patients were included and a reference database with MRI scans of patients was used and the algorithms automatically recognised and localised brain tumours using artificial neural networks. The AI-based algorithms was powered to volumetrically measure the individual areas (contrast medium-absorbing tumour portion, peritumoral edema).