AI model capable of reading various cancer images

A Chinese team has developed the country's first versatile artificial intelligence model capable of examining medical images of more than 20 human organs, including the lungs, breasts and liver.

The large language model, known as PathOrchestra, represents a breakthrough in AI-assisted disease diagnosis, heralding a transformative shift from a singular model dedicated to a specific cancer to a versatile one capable of addressing a multitude of them.

Researchers from Air Force Medical University, Tsinghua University and SenseTime leveraged China's largest domestic data set, which has nearly 300,000 whole-slide digital pathology images, equating to 300 terabytes of data.