IMIC Lab

Anant Madabhushi

Dr Madabhushi’s pioneering work in developing novel machine vision and AI based approaches for interrogating routinely acquired digital pathology and radiology scans is helping oncologists treat patients suffering from brain, lung, prostate, colorectal, breast, and blood cancer. Most recently, to help combat COVID-19, he adapted technology from his work on lung cancer to create a new artificial intelligence tool that uses computers to digitally analyze CT scans to identify patients who require ventilators for the coronavirus5. He places special emphasis on eliminating racial disparities in medicine by identifying underlying biological variations in disease appearance between populations, which can then be specifically targeted, to enable population-based personalized risk calculators. He is also taking this logic to another minority population, Veterans, where their unique exposure to wartime environments and particular lifestyle choices, make them different from the civilian population and thus requiring training with Veteran data.