Microsoft Is Building The Largest AI Image Model To Help Fight Against Cancer
By Alexa Heah, 12 Sep 2023
Microsoft has teamed up with Paige, a leading disruptor in healthcare technology, to embark on an ambitious endeavor to create the world’s largest image-based artificial intelligence models to detect cancer.
The project builds off Paige’s Large Foundation Model—comprising an astounding collection of over one billion images sourced from half a million pathology slides encompassing a variety of cancer types. This monumental leap is paving the way for a new AI model that will dwarf any image-based algorithm in existence today.
The forthcoming supermodel, configured with billions of parameters, could serve as the bedrock for the next generation of clinical applications and computational biomarkers that will boldly redefine the frontiers of the fight against the disease.
As they progress into the next phase of development, the company is gearing up to include a staggering four million digitized microscopy slides, representing a diverse array of cancer types.
These slides will be sourced from an archive of clinical data using the supercomputing infrastructure provided by Microsoft.
According to the duo, this infrastructure will play a pivotal role in training the AI model at an unprecedented scale, ensuring it reaches its full potential. Once that has been achieved, this technology will ultimately be deployed to hospitals and laboratories worldwide through Microsoft’s Azure platform.
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