Hey friends! Did you know that scientists in China have made a super cool new tool? 🤖 They’re using artificial intelligence (AI) to help doctors predict if liver cancer might come back after surgery! That’s amazing, right?
Liver cancer is a big problem around the world. It’s the third most common cancer that causes people to pass away. Even after doctors remove the cancer through surgery, it can come back in 70% of patients. That’s a lot! 😮 So, knowing if it might return can help doctors give better treatments.
The clever researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, led by a scientist named Sun Cheng, have created a special system called TIMES. 🧪 This system looks at how immune cells (the body’s little fighters against sickness) are arranged around the cancer cells. Instead of just counting the immune cells, TIMES checks their patterns and how they’re spread out. This helps predict if the cancer might come back, with an accuracy of over 82%! 🎯
They used super advanced technologies like spatial transcriptomics and proteomics (big words that mean studying where genes and proteins are in the cells), and special AI techniques to make this possible. They tested their tool with samples from 61 patients.
And guess what? They’ve made TIMES available online for free! 🌐 That means doctors around the world can use it by uploading images of cancer tissue, and it will help them see the risk of the cancer returning. How cool is that?
The team hopes that this tool will help doctors choose the best treatments for their patients, especially in places where resources like big hospitals might not be available. They’re also working with others to make sure this tool can be used easily in hospitals everywhere. 🤝
This is a big step forward in the fight against cancer, showing how AI can help save lives! 💪
Reference(s):
Chinese scientists develop AI tool to predict liver cancer recurrence
cgtn.com
