Varian began using Google's neural architecture to treat cancer

In early April 2021, Varian announced its upcoming collaboration with Google Cloud. The company intends to use Google's neural architecture to treat cancer and create a diagnostic platform based on artificial intelligence.

The company intends to focus on artificial intelligence models for organ segmentation - an important and time-consuming stage of radiation oncology, the implementation of which can slow down the entire work process. This step involves identifying organs and tissues on diagnostic images to be treated or, in contrast, protected during radiotherapy, and working with each patient's images can take up to several hours.

Varian begins using Google's neural architecture to treat cancer

Varian uses Google Cloud AI's neural architecture (NAS) search technology to create an AI-based segmentation mechanism. The company will train the new model on its own database of images used to plan therapy. This will allow you to create individual models of automatic segmentation of organs and tissues. Varian plans to incorporate new models into its software tools for therapy planning at cancer centers around the world.

Varian believes that high-quality oncology care - personalized and optimized for each patient - should be available to everyone. That is why our Intelligent Cancer Care program aims to automate routine or repetitive tasks in the workflow of radiation oncology using intelligent algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence. And cooperation with Google Cloud will give a new impetus to our work in this area, "said Corey Zankowski, senior vice president of technology and innovation at Varian[1]

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