Pakistan, March 17 -- A Chinese research team has developed an AI tool that predicts liver cancer recurrence with 82.2% accuracy, according to a study in Nature. Liver cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, has a high recurrence rate of 70%, making early prediction crucial. The AI system, called TIMES, was created by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China, led by Sun Cheng.

TIMES is the first tool to integrate spatial immune data for liver cancer recurrence prediction. Instead of focusing only on immune cell quantity, it analyzes their spatial distribution in the tumour microenvironment. The system uses advanced techniques like spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and multispectral immunohisto...