A ChatGPT-like model can diagnose cancer, assist in selecting treatment options, and predict survival outcomes across various cancer types.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed a versatile AI model, similar to ChatGPT, that can perform a wide range of diagnostic tasks across various types of cancer.
The new AI system, described Sept. 4 in Nature, goes a step beyond many current AI approaches to cancer diagnosis, the researchers said.
Current AI systems are typically trained to perform specific tasks — such as detecting cancer presence or predicting a tumor’s genetic profile — and they tend to work only in a handful of cancer types. By contrast, the new model can perform a wide array of tasks and was tested on 19 cancer types, giving it a flexibility like that of large language models such as ChatGPT.
While other foundation AI models for medical diagnosis based on pathology images have emerged recently, this is believed to be the first to predict patient outcomes and validate them across several international patient groups.