Microsoft Releases AI Tool That Generates Immune System Data from Cancer Slides in Minutes Instead of Days
Summary
Microsoft releases GigaTIME, an AI tool that generates detailed immune system data from cancer pathology slides in minutes rather than days, potentially revolutionizing precision cancer medicine by eliminating expensive testing that costs thousands of dollars per sample.
Key Points
- Microsoft, Providence, and University of Washington publicly release GigaTIME, an AI tool that generates detailed immune system data from standard pathology slides in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods
- The AI model was trained on 40 million cells from Providence datasets and applied to samples from 14,256 cancer patients across 51 hospitals, creating a virtual population of approximately 300,000 images covering 24 cancer types
- GigaTIME bypasses expensive multiplex immunofluorescence analysis that normally takes days and costs thousands of dollars per sample, potentially making precision cancer medicine more widely accessible