AI-supported image analysis: metrics determine quality

New online tool helps to select the right algorithm

14-Feb-2024 - How well do the algorithms used in the AI-supported analysis of medical images perform their respective tasks? This depends to a large extent on the metrics used to evaluate their performance. An international consortium led by scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the ...

AI-based support system for skin cancer diagnostics explains its decisions

The explanations increased doctors' confidence in the machine's decisions - as well as in their own diagnoses

19-Jan-2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) can help dermatologists to detect skin cancer. However, many dermatologists distrust the algorithms' decisions, which they cannot comprehend. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have now developed an AI-based support system for skin cancer diagnostics that ...

Using oxygen to make cancer visible

20-Feb-2020 - Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center have developed a new method that uses oxygen to identify brain tumors more effectively by magnetic resonance tomography (MRT). To do so, they rely on a metabolic feature of the tumor cells that they can make visible using a completely new imaging ...

Protein misfolding as a risk marker for Alzheimer’s disease – up to 14 years before the diagnosis

17-Oct-2019 - In symptom-free individuals, the detection of misfolded amyloid-β protein in the blood indicated a considerably higher risk of Alzheimer's disease – up to 14 years before a clinical diagnosis was made. Amyloid-β folding proved to be superior to other risk markers evaluated, as shown by scientists ...

Nobel Prize to HPV Researcher Highlights Importance of Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention

QIAGEN's HPV testing technologies are a successful commercialization of the Nobel Prize in Medicine winner's research

08-Oct-2008 - The Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the causal link between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer has spurred lifesaving prevention technologies -- such as HPV testing and HPV vaccines -- that are helping to eradicate cervical cancer globally. The Nobel Prize Committee announced that ...