Computer Vision to Diagnose Cancer on a Blood Smear: Prof. Christian Ruiz, Moonlight AI

Instead of or before a genetic test – a blood smear analysis to detect blood cancers might soon be an option.

What a human eye cannot see – also under a microscope, computer vision + AI can.

You’ll hear about

• cancer diagnostics in highly specialized centers
• why is Next-Generation Sequencing so expensive
• how AI and computer vision can help bring personalized cancer medicine to millions of patients
• how to train algorithms to recognize genomic aberrations

Prof. Christian Ruiz is the Chief Scientific Officer at Moonlight AI. As a professor of experimental medicine at the University of Basel and used to be responsible for a diagnostic laboratory at the University Hospital Basel which processes more than 100,000 biopsies a day.

Moonlight AI is an early-stage Swiss startup that developed a platform to detect genomic aberrations in blood cancers by analyzing the image of a blood smear. This will allow targeted therapies for leukemias and lymphomas at a fraction of the current cost.

https://www.moonlight-ai.com/

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