Watson powers “Moon Shots” Mission
MD Anderson Cancer Center has taken the opportunity to attack the epidemic of cancer using the computer power of IBM’s very own supercomputer named Watson. Watson uses advancements in natural language processing and analytics, which can lead to achieve the mindset of a human being but can analyze and quickly understand large amounts of data. This is why Watson will be a perfect match to help fight against one of the worlds largest epidemics. MD Anderson Cancer Center has plans to battle against eight different types of cancer such as acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, lung cancer, melanoma, prostate cancer and triple-negative breast cancer and high-grade serous ovarian cancer. The task at hand is deemed the “Moon Shots” mission, and these projects were chosen due to the fact that MD Anderson Cancer Center has the knowledge, technology and a long history of achieving a lower death rate from these cases of cancers.
After a yearlong process of collaborating with IBM and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer center, they finally have taken the initiative to move the mission towards its goals of testing the Moon Shots mission on these types of cancers. MD Anderson Cancer Center has an oncology expert advisor that will be powered by Watson. What Watson will do is integrate the knowledge of MD Anderson’s clinicians and researchers to create a treatment plan for patients that would be most effective and safe based on evidence it gathers through standard care of treating patients. Watson will help MD Anderson’s clinicians develop and observe treatment plans and can help them realize adverse events that may occur within the treatment plan. The oncology ...
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...g more adjusted to the medical field. The Moon Shots mission will help not only the progression of cancer patients but can also provide a broader range of other epidemics in the future. What IBM’s Watson and MD Anderson’s Cancer Center can provide now will open doors for future use of advance stages of terminal illnesses. This Moon Shots mission is a great start of finding the cure for cancer. This mission will get us a step closer to what is needed to fight against such a large epidemic.
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