- Published on February 2, 2018
- In IT Services
On This World Cancer Day Let’s Celebrate The Progress In AI That’s Helping Fight Cancer
- By Srishti Deoras
With AI venturing into all the avenues of life, their designation as doctors, making a way into hospitals doesn’t sound surprising. As Bertalan Meskó, The Medical Futurist has said, AI is the stethoscope of the 21st century, and is playing a significant role in detecting complications in cardiovascular, lethal blood infection, and most importantly cancer, among other deadly diseases.
This cancer day which would be observed on 4th Feb, Analytics India Magazine brings you a quick brief of the role that artificial intelligence is playing in preventing, detecting and treating cancer across the globe, which essentially is the primary goal of the World Cancer Day. It also aims to significantly reduce the illness and death caused by cancer by 2020.
AI becoming central cancer detection and prevention
According to a report by Accenture Consulting, the market value of AI in medicine in 2014 was found to be $600 million, which is expected to reach $6.6 billion by 2021. Given the fact that i
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Srishti Deoras
Srishti currently works as Associate Editor at Analytics India Magazine. When not covering the analytics news, editing and writing articles, she could be found reading or capturing thoughts into pictures.
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