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by Prachi Patel: Researchers are training algorithms to emulate trained dogs’ ability to detect cancer and other diseases, perhaps including COVID-19…
Most people consider smell their least important sense, surveys suggest. Dogs, however, feel their way through the world with their noses. Humans already employ the animals’ olfactory acuity for contraband and explosives detection. More recently it has also proved uncannily good at sensing cancers, diabetes and even COVID-19. Exactly how dogs detect diseases is a mystery, but that has not stopped researchers from mimicking this prowess with an artificial-intelligence-based noninvasive diagnostic tool.
Scientific American
AI System Can Sniff Out Disease as Well as Dogs Do
Researchers are training algorithms to emulate trained dogs’ ability to detect cancer and other diseases, perhaps including COVID-19
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U.K.-based charity Medical Detection Dogs trains dogs to detect human diseases by smell. Researchers are working on an AI system that could do the job just as well. Credit: Leon Neal
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Most people consider smell their least important sense, surveys suggest. Dogs, however, feel their way through the world with their noses. Humans already employ the animals’ olfactory acuity for contraband and explosives detection. More recently it has also proved uncannily good at sensing cancers, diabetes and even COVID-19. Exactly how dogs detect diseases is a mystery, but that has not stopped researchers from mimicking this prowess with an artificial-intelligence-based noninvasive diagnostic tool.