Microsoft to build AI model for detecting cancer: All the details

Microsoft and Paige, a digital pathology provider, announced a partnership on Thursday to build the world’s largest image-based artificial intelligence (AI) model for cancer detection.

The model will be trained on up to four million digitized microscopy slides across multiple types of cancer, from Paige’s unmatched petabyte-scale archive of clinical data. Paige will utilize Microsoft’s advanced supercomputing infrastructure to train the technology at scale and ultimately deploy it to hospitals and laboratories across the globe using Azure.

Paige is developing with Microsoft a new AI model that is orders of magnitude larger than any other image-based AI model existing today, configured with billions of parameters.