Oncology

In what could be regarded as a first of its kind, researchers from the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom have recently reported that they created two machine learning models that are able to precisely predict the severity of three common symptoms faced by cancer patients: depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance. And, these three symptoms play potential roles in diminishing the quality of life in cancer patients. During the research, the researchers analyzed the data of symptoms experienced by cancer patients during the course of computed tomography X-ray treatment. The team used different time...