Collaboration Between UT and UTMC Could Revolutionize Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Xueping Li, Professor and Dan Doulet Faculty Fellow in Industrial and Systems Engineering; and Bing Yao, Dan Doulet Early Career Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering; collaborated on Artificial Intelligence (AI) cancer screening research for the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

Researchers in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Tickle College of Engineering are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide treatment plans to breast cancer patients more quickly by analyzing pathology reports and other clinical records to determine how much breast cancer is in the body. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in Tennessee and the second most common cancer among women in the United States.