FINLAND’S RESEARCHERS UNVEIL AI-BASED DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR COLORECTAL CANCER

Mon 03 March 2025:

The University of Jyvaskyla in Finland revealed on Thursday that it has created a new AI-powered tool designed to automatically detect colorectal cancer through tissue sample analysis.

According to the university, the neural network model crafted in this research outperforms all previous models in accurately classifying tissue samples.

Based on the study, the new model can identify all tissue categories relevant for colorectal cancer identification, with an accuracy of 96.74 percent, said Fabi Prezja, the researcher responsible for designing the method.

Conventionally, tissue analysis requires a pathologist to look through slides of scanned tissue samples, and mark point by point where the cancerous and related tissues are visible.

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However, the new AI-based tool analyses a sample and automatically highlights areas containing different tissue categories. Its accuracy has the potential to significantly ease the workload of histopathologists, potentially resulting in faster diagnoses, prognoses and clinical insights, explained the university.

The research team has made the AI-based tool freely available, in order to encourage research collaboration.

“The free availability aims to accelerate future advances by encouraging scientists, developers and researchers worldwide to continue developing the tool and finding new applications for it,” said Prezja.

Nevertheless, the research team pointed out that despite promising results, the introduction of AI tools to the clinical setting must be done gradually and with caution.

The AI-based model has been developed by researchers at the University of Jyvaskyla, in collaboration with the University of Turku’s Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki and Nova Hospital of Central Finland.

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