Using AI, images are fueling a new boom in cell biology

Compared to molecular techniques to study single cells, images feel a little like “old school biology,” says Anne Carpenter, an artificial intelligence and cell biology researcher at the Broad Institute. Yet  images are a gold mine that can yield information as rich as the genome — once you learn how to extract it. 

Carpenter is using AI and other computational methods to do exactly that, helping to propel an AI-driven boom in cell biology and medicine over the past decade. She and other scientists spoke of this visual feast at the annual STAT Summit in Boston.

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