New AI-Based Methods to Analyze Microscopy Images of Breast Cancer Tissue Written by AZoRoboticsMay 11 2021 The World Health Organization reports that, in recent times, breast cancer has exceeded lung cancer to become the most common type of cancer worldwide. AI algorithms performed well on easier breast cancer image patches, like these. Image Credit: Petrick et al., doi 10.1117/1.JMI.8.3.034501 The BreastPathQ Challenge was started at SPIE Medical Imaging 2019 to progress the fight against breast cancer and to help develop a computer-aided diagnosis for evaluating breast cancer pathology. The participants of BreastPathQ Challenge were given a task to design an automated technique for examining microscopy images of breast tissue and rating them as per their tumor cell content, to offer a trustworthy assessment score.