Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence to diagnose cancer

Microsoft has developed a new artificial intelligence that can be used to analyze medical images and, for example, find tumors. This artificial intelligence model is based on GPT-4 from OpenAI.

According to Microsoft’s official announcement, the company’s new artificial intelligence tool is called BiomedParse. This tool can be used to evaluate CT scans, MRIs, X-ray images, ultrasounds, and other types of medical images to identify potential problems or detect cell types or other biological phenomena in an image.

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence tool can help doctors diagnose cancer

According to Microsoft, doctors must first give it a text to use this tool; For example, doctors can type in the words “pathological cells” and the AI ​​will identify where they are located in the image. Microsoft claims that the BiomedParse tool has so far been able to detect tumors, melanoma, macular cystoid edema, covid-19 chest infection and brain glioma, among other diseases.

According to researchers who have worked with BiomedParse, the tool requires less effort than other commonly used tools for medical diagnostics; Because it works only by writing plain text. Given that doctors can now detect diseases and cancer without using artificial intelligence, it is not clear how useful such a tool can be in the field of disease diagnosis.

Microsoft has compared the BiomedParse tool to MedSAM, a medical AI tool that can segment medical images to identify different body parts.

The use of artificial intelligence tools is expanding throughout the medical industry. All these tools try to make diagnosis and treatment easier for doctors. But Microsoft is not the only company active in this field. Google has been working on health-oriented AI tools for many years and has released MedLM and Med-PaLM AI models. These models can handle a wide range of medical tasks, from summarizing data to answering medical questions.