Singapore, June 16 -- University of Melbourne and Western Health researchers in Australia have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool to prevent cancer patients from receiving incorrect doses of chemotherapy.

The AI algorithm uses image recognition technology and machine learning to accurately predict the precise amount of chemotherapy a patient requires based on their body make-up.

Currently, around60 percentof colorectal cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy are either overdosed or underdosed.

Professor Justin Yeung's team utilised data including CT scans from a cohort of more than 1,000 colorectal cancer patients at Western Health to help train and test the algorithm.

The algorithm analysed the scans and found the pat...