Matek developed a neural network to support physicians in the evaluation and classification of single cells for leukemia diagnostics. When tested, the deep learning algorithms performed similar to human experts. The prize was awarded during the interdisciplinary symposium “Vision Zero Innovations in Oncology“ for outstanding work in the field of cancer research and diagnostics. Matek’s work was carried out in the lab of Carsten Marr (Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Zentrum München) and that of Karsten Spiekermann (University Hospital of LMU Munich).
“The Vision Zero Award underlines the potential of computer-assisted methods for oncology. I am very pleased that it recognizes our efforts to improve leukemia diagnostics using artificial intelligence,“ says Matek.
Original Publication:
Matek et al., 2019: <link www.nature.com/articles/s42256-019-0101-9 - extern>Human-level recognition of blast cells in acute myeloid leukaemia with convolutional neural networks.</link> Nature Machine Intelligence, DOI: 10.1038/s42256-019-0101-9
Christian Matek Receives the Vision Zero Award 2021
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