ORNL researchers develop 'multitasking' AI tool to extract cancer data in record time
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 15:40
in Mathematics & Economics
To better leverage cancer data for research, scientists at ORNL are developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based natural language processing tool to improve information extraction from textual pathology reports. In a first for cancer pathology reports, the team developed a multitask convolutional neural network (CNN)--a deep learning model that learns to perform tasks, such as identifying key words in a body of text, by processing language as a two-dimensional numerical dataset.