Artificial intelligence to improve the diagnosis of rare diseases

in #news5 years ago


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Rare diseases precisely bear that name because they are scarce, this causes that they do not have enough data to diagnose them in time to save the patient.

To compound the problem, most of these rare diseases are of genetic origin and studying genomes is an expensive and laborious process, which professionals must do manually.

To speed up this process Julian Isla, an engineer at Microsoft and with a child unfortunately affected by one of these diseases, has developed a cloud computing platform and AI algorithms to analyze these genomes faster.

To achieve this, Julian created a nonprofit organization in 2017, which he called Foundation 29, to be held on February 29.
Two years later, the first clinical trials are planned for 600 patients in public hospitals in Spain and the United Kingdom.

What Dx29 does, which is what the platform is called, is to facilitate and automate the genetic analysis and allow any doctor to use it; With this tool the whole process does not take more than ten minutes.

Source: dx29.ai, read original article
https://www.dx29.ai/pages/home


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