IIT Madras researchers have built AI prediction models for three different types of cancer including Breast Invasive Carcinoma, Colon Adenocarcinoma and Lung Adenocarcinoma. They are planning to extend it further to many more cancer types.

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) revealed that its researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence-based tool, ‘PIVOT’, that can predict cancer-causing genes in an individual.
• This tool will ultimately help in devising personalized cancer treatment strategies.
• According to World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and accounted for nearly one in six deaths in 2020.
• ‘PIVOT,’ developed by IIT Madras researchers, is designed to predict genes that are responsible for causing cancer in an individual.
• The prediction is based on a model that utilizes information on mutations, expression of genes, and copy number variation in genes and perturbations in the biological network due to an altered gene expression,” the institute said in a statement.