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Artif Intell Cancer. Oct 28, 2021; 2(5): 60-68
Published online Oct 28, 2021. doi: 10.35713/aic.v2.i5.60
Repairing the human with artificial intelligence in oncology
Ian Morilla
Ian Morilla, Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications - Institut Galilée, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Paris 75006, France
Author contributions: Morilla I designed and wrote the full manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Dr. Morilla has nothing to disclose.
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Corresponding author: Ian Morilla, PhD, Assistant Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications - Institut Galilée, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, 13 Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, Villetaneuse, Paris 75006, France. morilla@math.univ-paris13.fr
Received: October 15, 2021
Peer-review started: October 15, 2021
First decision: October 24, 2021
Revised: October 26, 2021
Accepted: October 27, 2021
Article in press: October 27, 2021
Published online: October 28, 2021
Abstract

Artificial intelligence is a groundbreaking tool to learn and analyse higher features extracted from any dataset at large scale. This ability makes it ideal to facing any complex problem that may generally arise in the biomedical domain or oncology in particular. In this work, we envisage to provide a global vision of this mathematical discipline outgrowth by linking some other related subdomains such as transfer, reinforcement or federated learning. Complementary, we also introduce the recently popular method of topological data analysis that improves the performance of learning models.

Keywords: Cancer research, Data analysis, Feature classification, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Healthcare systems

Core Tip: In this review, we explore powerful artificial intelligence based models enabling the comprehensive analysis of related problems on oncology. To this end, we described an asserted set of machine learning architectures that goes from the most classical multiple perceptron or neural networks to the novel federated and reinforcement learning designs. Overall, we point out the outgrowth of this mathematical discipline in cancer research and how computational biology and topological features can boost the general performances of these learning models.