Artificial intelligence in cancer research

Potential data sources range from fundamental cell biology data, pre-clinical and patient ‘omics data, cancer diagnostic and digital pathology image data, through to medical records and population risk data.

Artificial intelligence and the data-driven economy is a ‘Grand Challenge’ identified in the Government’s Industrial Strategy white paper and we expect major private and public sector investment decisions to be made in this area. With links to AI companies and a central location in the ‘Knowledge Quarter’, data-intensive research at UCL is already beginning to be transformed by machine-learning approaches.