Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

AI-Powered Personalized Medicine for Targeted Therapies

Industry

Biotechnology

Improve Treatment Outcomes

Transform treatment through AI-driven personalization. By analyzing patient-specific data, AI helps healthcare providers deliver precisely targeted therapies that improve efficacy, reduce side effects, and lower healthcare costs while enhancing patient outcomes.

The Problem

Healthcare treatments often follow a "one-size-fits-all" approach, leading to inefficient trial-and-error therapies. Variability in patient genetics, lifestyle, and health data complicates therapeutic decisions, delaying effective treatments and increasing healthcare costs.

Research has shown that standard drug treatments can be ineffective for a surprisingly large number of patients depending on the class of drugs — for instance, asthma drugs can be ineffective for up to 48% of patients, while the ineffectiveness for cancer patients can be up to 75%.

The AI Opportunity

AI can transform treatment selection by analyzing comprehensive patient data -- including genetics, biomarkers, clinical history, imaging, and lifestyle factors -- to design tailored therapies, predict treatment responses and optimize therapeutic decisions. In one research study, a machine-learning model used patients’ gene expression data to predict their response to chemotherapy, achieving an 80% accuracy rate.

Why It Matters

Personalized medicine ensures patients receive the most effective treatments faster, improving outcomes and accelerating recovery while reducing healthcare costs and unnecessary side effects. This approach not only enhances individual patient care, but also contributes to more efficient healthcare resource allocation, higher trust in healthcare, and improved population health outcomes.

Benefits & Impact

Enhanced Patient Outcomes

AI-driven personalization reduces trial-and-error in treatment plans, leading to more effective therapies tailored to individual needs. This facilitates faster recovery and improved quality of life by aligning treatments with patient-specific profiles.

Cost Efficiency

Reduces unnecessary diagnostic tests and ineffective treatments, optimizing resource use in healthcare systems. Streamlines clinical workflows, minimizing delays and associated costs.

Operational Efficiency

Accelerates treatment planning, enabling healthcare providers to manage more patients without compromising care quality. Integrates real-time feedback loops to refine therapeutic approaches dynamically.

Improved Decision-Making

Offers clinicians actionable insights based on comprehensive patient data, supporting informed and confident decisions. Helps identify at-risk patients earlier, enabling proactive care and preventing complications.

AI Methods & Models

  • Purpose: Identify the best therapy for each patient using their unique data.

  • Why: Improves treatment accuracy, reducing delays and ineffective care.

  • Tools/Models: Random forests, neural networks (e.g., MLPs), and decision trees.

Build Your AI Solution with Amii

As one of Canada’s three national AI institutes, Amii brings decades of expertise, advancing AI innovation and delivering industry solutions to your team. Whether you’re just starting to explore the possibilities of AI or are ready to develop advanced AI models, Amii is here to help.

Training

A successful AI solution requires both technical know-how and a strong understanding of your business. Our training aligns technical and non-technical teams, creating a shared language and fostering the collaboration needed for successful AI implementation.

Strategy

We collaborate with your team to brainstorm, evaluate, and prioritize AI use cases aligned with your business goals, building your internal capacity along the way. Our experts then validate the top idea, positioning your team for a smooth transition into development.

Development

Our unique approach places a full-time Machine Learning Resident within your team, supervised by Amii experts, to help build a custom AI solution. After the project, you have the option to hire the resident, ensuring continuity to deployment and expanding your internal AI capacity for future AI innovation.

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