Project InnerEye evaluation shows how AI can augment and accelerate clinicians’ ability to perform radiotherapy planning 13 times faster
Up to half of the population in the United States and United Kingdom will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. Of those, half will be treated with radiotherapy (RT), often in combination with other treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and increasingly immunotherapy. Radiotherapy involves focusing high-intensity radiation beams to damage the DNA of deep-seated cancerous tumors while avoiding surrounding healthy organs (known as organs at risk or OARs). Around 40% of successfully treated cancer patients undergo some form of radiotherapy, which shows how critical this tool is to cancer treatment regimens.
Project InnerEye is research conducted in the Health Intelligence team at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) that is exploring ways in which machine