UNC to establish AI-driven oncology center
Healthcare Finance News December 12, 2024
UNC would like to see the project scaled, first across North Carolina, and then across the U.S.
A team of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill researchers has been awarded up to $10 million in Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) funding to develop the Cancer Identification and Precision Oncology Center (CIPOC).
Harnessing artificial intelligence, the project is designed to improve cancer diagnosis and support personalized treatments by quickly aggregating and analyzing a wide range of health data, including electronic health records, histopathological and radiological images, insurance claims and geographic information.
Specifically, CIPOC will facilitate the development of an oncology health learning system that uses AI-ready data to generate real-time identification of new cancer cases, support patient recruitment for...