WUNC February 14, 2020
Researchers at the Tampa veterans’ hospital are training computers to diagnose cancer. It’s one example of how the Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding artificial intelligence development.
Stephanie Colombini reports on the VA’s use of artificial intelligence in medical care.
Inside a laboratory at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Fla., machines are rapidly processing tubes of patients’ body fluids and tissue samples. Pathologists examine those samples under microscopes to spot signs of cancer and other diseases.
But distinguishing certain features about a cancer cell can be difficult, so Drs. Stephen Mastorides and Andrew Borkowski, decided to get a computer involved.
In a series of experiments, they uploaded hundreds of images of slides containing lung and colon tissues...
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