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Researchers leverage AI to Develop Early Diagnostic Test for Ovarian Cancer

Micrograph of a mucinous ovarian tumor (Photo National Institutes of Health)
Micrograph of a mucinous ovarian tumor (Photo National Institutes of Health)

For over three decades, a highly accurate early diagnostic test for ovarian cancer has eluded physicians. Now, scientists in the Georgia Tech Integrated Cancer Research Center (ICRC) have combined machine learning with information on blood metabolites to develop a new test able to detect ovarian cancer with 93 percent accuracy among samples from the team’s study group.

John McDonald, professor emeritus in the School of Biological Sciences, founding director of the ICRC, and the study’s corresponding author, explains that the new test’s accuracy is better in detecting ovarian cancer than existing tests for women clinically classified as normal, with a particular improvement in detecting early-stage ovarian d...

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