Tracking vampire worms with machine learning − using AI to diagnose schistosomiasis before the parasites causing it hatch in your blood
- Written by Trirupa Chakraborty, Ph.D. Candidate in Integrative Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh
Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks different stages of the disease. In our recently published research, our team used machine learning to uncover that hidden information and improve early detection and diagnosis of infection.
The parasite that causes...