Self-learning algorithms
How AI is revolutionizing image analysis
Image analysis with artificial intelligence (AI) is a major topic of the future in medicine. Medical computer scientists from Heidelberg have now developed a method with which all image data can be processed with AI - free of charge and also usable by laypersons.
Medical informatician Fabian Isensee works in the Medical Image Processing department at the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ. Image: DKFZ.
What can you see on the screen there? Is that part of a lung carcinoma? Or healthy lung tissue? A vessel? A section of a fiber of the heart muscle? Several million times a minute, the algorithm that medical computer scientist Fabian Isensee trained in Klaus Maier-Hein's team at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) asks this question using a new method: What can be seen here?