AI could hold key to early prostate cancer diagnosis

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Artificial intelligence is a very divisive, but some of the benefits could be lifesaving. One cancer charity is hoping that they can use AI to diagnose patients early and prevent deaths in the future.

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00:00It's about using artificial intelligence to be able to find the signature of the sort

00:07of aggressive prostate cancer that has the potential to be a killer.

00:13Because what we want to be able to do is identify men on diagnosis who have that really aggressive

00:19cancer so that we can tailor treatments and we can tailor follow-up and we can actually

00:25stop that cancer from being a killer.

00:28Artificial intelligence is useful for a number of reasons in many different fields, but in

00:32this case it's the speed and the reliability of computers that makes it so helpful.

00:37With so much information to trawl through, there's hope that AI can find those intricacies

00:42that could lead to results.

00:44Within a single human cell there is six foot of DNA data and this research is looking at

00:53hundreds of thousands of cells from 2,000 men with prostate cancer.

01:00So it is more data than any human being could ever analyse.

01:05What AI enables us to do is to look for patterns within that data that human beings just couldn't spot.

01:15The new research will hopefully give results within a fraction of the time of what humans

01:19might be able to do it in.

01:20Prostate Cancer UK think that it will be a matter of a few years before we see breakthroughs

01:24in the research and lives can be saved sooner rather than later.

01:28We have just agreed at Prostate Cancer UK to fund this research.

01:34It's going to cost one and a half million pounds and it's just starting now and what's

01:40really exciting about this research is that actually we should see results quite quickly.

01:45So within a couple of years, which again is an advantage of AI, if a human being was

01:51doing this, this would be a lifetime's research.

01:54Whereas because we can use AI, we can use computers, we can accelerate that process.

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