Watson continues to study to be an oncologist
IBM Watson supercomputer joins fight against cancer
DailyTechInfo based on SlashGear materials: IBM supercomputer Watson can treat cancerThe IBM Watson supercomputer is not only capable of performing the most complex mathematical calculations at enormous speeds.
This supercomputer gained fame thanks to its unique artificial intelligence system, capable of extracting data from structured and unstructured information, even presented in natural language, and using deep analysis to identify such deep relationships that the human mind is simply unable to identify. And, thanks to this, a group of oncologists from fourteen medical institutions in the USA and Canada turned to him for help in the fight against cancer and other oncological diseases.
It is known that oncological diseases, even of the same type, can occur completely differently in different people, so there is no single universal method of treating such diseases in the world. In some cases, chemotherapy helps, in others – radiotherapy, in others – medical methods of exposure, and in the most severe cases, cancer cells, no matter what, continue to divide, causing undefined mutations in neighboring cells.
It usually takes weeks and months for qualified physicians to determine the composition of a "cocktail" of medications and other methods that will have a beneficial effect on each individual patient. But Watson, equipped with all the necessary data, will take only a few minutes to identify the way to counteract the mutations of each cancer tumor. And, despite the high cost of Watson's time, such a method will be faster, more reliable and, as a result, cheaper than the work of one or a team of highly qualified oncologists.
Doctors who rent access and processor time of the Watson supercomputer from IBM "feed" him a lot of information, including "fingerprints" of DNA of tumor cells, existing treatment methods, medical histories and other data related to the problem. The Watson supercomputer lays out all thousands of types of known mutations "on the bones" and creates a database in which each type of mutation corresponds to a set of the most effective drugs and treatment methods.
Currently, despite the fact that the supercomputer has unlimited access to an incalculable number of scientific journals, publications and clinical trial data, it has difficulties recognizing characteristic sections of DNA that has passed through several stages of successive mutations. But, since doctors are constantly supplementing the database with new sets of genetic information, their quantity will someday turn into quality and the Watson supercomputer will begin to identify very deep relationships and create optimal combinations of treatment methods that will save many human lives.
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