Scaling early detection of esophageal cancer with AI
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Microsoft Research and Cyted have collaborated to build novel AI models (opens in new tab) to scale the early detection of esophageal cancer. The AI-supported methods demonstrated the same diagnostic performance as the existing manual workflow, potentially reducing the pathologist’s workload by up to 63%.
Esophageal cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide, in part because this disease