Thursday, June 7, 2018

How AI and Deep Learning Will Enable Cancer Diagnosis Via Ultrasound

NVIDIA GPU Cloud containers speed research into using affordable ultrasound technology more widely. Viksit Kumar didn’t know his mother had ovarian cancer until it had reached its third stage, too late for chemotherapy to be effective. She died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, in 2006, but might have lived years longer if her cancer had been detected earlier.


This knowledge ate at the mechanical engineering student, spurring him to choose a different path. “That was one of the driving factors for me to move into the medical field,” said Kumar, now a senior research fellow at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. He hopes that the work his mom’s death inspired will help others to avoid her fate.