Artificial intelligence is intended to detect breast cancer earlier

In a major project at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, researchers are working on a computer-aided diagnosis system for breast cancer. Artificial intelligence should make it possible to detect tumors earlier and treat them better.

NYet no other cancer causes as many women to die as breast cancer. In Germany, more than 70,000 affected people receive the frightening diagnosis every year. How can the disease be detected earlier and more precisely, how can risks for patients be reduced and therapies made more effective? Can artificial intelligence (AI) help here too?

European computer scientists, physicists, mathematicians and doctors want to provide answers to these questions with the BosomShield research project. 21 partners from Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Slovenia, including eight universities and two companies, have joined forces. The University of Tarragona is coordinating the project, which is being funded by the EU with 2.6 million euros through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie doctoral network. Ten international doctoral students are researching an AI-supported diagnostic process at different locations – one of these locations is Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.