AI system that mimics human gaze could detect cancer

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Scientists in Cardiff have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system said to accurately predict where humans are most likely to look in an image.

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Based on the mechanics of the human brain and its ability to distinguish between different parts of an image, researchers claim that the novel system more accurately represents human vision than anything before.

Potential applications range from robotics, multimedia communication and video surveillance to automated image editing and finding tumours in medical images. The system has been presented in the journal Neurocomputing.

The Multimedia Computing Research Group at Cardiff University is now planning to test the system by helping radiologists to find lesions within medical images, with the overall goal of improving the speed, accuracy and sensitivity of medical diagnostics.

Being able to focus our attention is an important part of the human visual system, which allows humans to select and interpret the most relevant information in a particular scene.

Scientists all over the world have been using computer software to try and recreate this ability to pick out the most salient parts of an image, but with mixed success up until now.

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