Dr. Satish E. Viswanath is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and co-Director of the Center for AI Enabling Discovery in Disease Biology (AID2B) at Case Western Reserve University; with secondary appointments in the departments of Radiology and Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering. He is also a Research Scientist & Biomedical Engineer at the Cleveland VA Medical Center.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals have partnered on the Center for AI Enabling Discovery in Disease Biology to use artificial intelligence to better determine how well patients respond to treatment for rectal cancer.
Use of AI could also "fundamentally help these patients avoid a surgery safely without impacting their survival, which would mean that they don't have to suffer the complications of surgery," Viswanath said. "Quality of life is a lot better. Lower chance of infection, no chance of the side effects."