Defense Innovation Unit Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Detect Cancer

The Defense Innovation Unit is bringing together the best of commercially available artificial intelligence technology and the Defense Department's vast cache of archived medical data to teach computers how to identify cancers and other medical irregularities. The result will be new tools medical professionals can use to more accurately and more quickly identify medical issues in patients. The new DIU project, called "Predictive Health," also involves the Defense Health Agency, three private-sector businesses and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Patient Prep Staff assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego's Radiology Department prepare a patient for a brain MRI, Aug. 12, 2020. The ...