Precision medicine and AI: Made for each other

As precision medicine transforms disease treatment into a patient-by-patient art and science, AI is poised to help quickly identify or even predict genetic mutations, pointing the way to highly targeted therapies.

Eventually algorithms may completely displace current genetic testing processes, which can take weeks to complete and apply to individual patients.

And genetics is just one avenue of precision medicine in which AI may change the game. Big data is increasingly available for training cancer-busting algorithms in genomics, proteomics, epigenomics and others.

So noted the authors of an article running in the Journal of Translational Medicine.