How Watson Can Help Pinpoint Therapies for Cancer Patients
Time and again, healthcare experts have doubted the ability of Watson to help fight cancer. But the findings of a new study pose an argument in favor of IBM’s flagship artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Led by the University of North Carolina (UNC) Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, researchers employed Watson for Genomics to dig into “large volumes of data” from studies and databases, along with genetic information, to target treatment options and clinical trials for 1018 patients with “tumors with specific genetic abnormalities.”
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