{"id":11042,"date":"2025-12-17T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/?p=11042"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:14:41","slug":"success-story-ai-pomaha-zachranovat-zenske-zivoty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/success-story-ai-pomaha-zachranovat-zenske-zivoty\/","title":{"rendered":"AI pom\u00e1ha zachra\u0148ova\u0165 \u017eensk\u00e9 \u017eivoty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Success story: AI Helps Save Women\u2019s Lives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fear of breast cancer is a silent companion for many women. All it takes is an invitation to a preventive screening, a single phone call from a doctor, or the wait for test results\u2014and the mind fills with questions: \u201cAm I okay?\u201d \u201cWhat if I\u2019m not?\u201d \u201cCould something be missed?\u201d<\/em>
Even when screening confirms a negative result, the worries often persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is precisely why it makes sense to seek new ways to detect cancer as early as possible\u2014not to replace doctors, but to help them see more, faster, and with greater confidence. And this is where artificial intelligence enters the story. Not as a sci-fi technology, but as a tool that may one day help protect lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Slovak research team from the University of \u017dilina has brought together medicine, artificial intelligence, and European supercomputers in a joint project with a clear goal: to improve the accuracy of breast cancer detection and support doctors in the interpretation of mammographic images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mammography generates enormous volumes of imaging data. A single project may work with hundreds of thousands of images at extremely high resolution. The Slovak team from the University of \u017dilina worked with more than 434,000 mammograms, representing data on the scale of several terabytes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the team decided to use a foundation model\u2014a massive neural network with nearly a billion parameters, originally developed for general image analysis. Such a model has enormous potential, but it also places extreme demands on computing power, memory, and data processing speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It quickly became clear that standard research infrastructure was simply not sufficient for such a volume of computations. Without a supercomputer, the project could not have continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The breakthrough came when the project gained access to the AI Factory VEGA in Slovenia, which is part of the European EuroHPC initiative. For the first time, Slovak medical AI research was able to work on infrastructure with a level of performance it had never had access to before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this platform, state-of-the-art NVIDIA H100 graphics accelerators, designed specifically for artificial intelligence, were available. The researchers built a complete technological pipeline there, from processing mammographic images to training the model itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the data had to be cleaned, optimized, and prepared so it could be loaded efficiently during computation. Then the process of adapting the large AI model began, as it \u201clearned\u201d to understand the subtle details of mammography. This was not a one-off computation\u2014it was an incremental process in which the model improved step by step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The supercomputer thus became not only a powerful tool but a key partner in research. It made it possible to do what was previously virtually impossible: to train a massive medical AI model at once using an enormous volume of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence can learn from mammographic images in a way that gradually enables it to distinguish between healthy tissue and changes that may signal a problem. In other words, the system began to learn how to \u201clook\u201d at images in a manner similar to a physician\u2014searching for subtle details and small deviations that can be very difficult for the human eye to notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This progress is particularly important because it represents the first step toward enabling artificial intelligence to flag changes that a human might not notice at first glance. It is not about replacing the physician, but about providing a supporting tool that can help clinicians make decisions with greater confidence, especially in borderline and ambiguous cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Impact and future potential<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this research continues to be further developed, artificial intelligence could become a silent assistant in preventive screening. It can speed up the evaluation of imaging data, reduce the risk of overlooking subtle changes, and help detect disease at a stage when it is still highly treatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre \u017eeny to v praxi znamen\u00e1 v\u00e4\u010d\u0161iu \u0161ancu na v\u010dasn\u00e9 odhalenie rakoviny a t\u00fdm aj vy\u0161\u0161iu n\u00e1dej na \u00fapln\u00e9 uzdravenie. Pri negat\u00edvnych n\u00e1lezoch m\u00f4\u017eu dosta\u0165 \u017eeny nez\u00e1visl\u00fd a objekt\u00edvny doplnkov\u00fd n\u00e1zor a t\u00fdm si zn\u00ed\u017eia neistotu po skr\u00edningu.  Hoci je pred vedcami e\u0161te \u010fal\u0161ia pr\u00e1ca, u\u017e dnes je jasn\u00e9, \u017ee smer, ktor\u00fdm sa v\u00fdskum uber\u00e1, m\u00e1 ve\u013ek\u00fd zmysel. Cie\u013e je jednoduch\u00fd, ale siln\u00fd. Vyu\u017ei\u0165 modern\u00e9 technol\u00f3gie tak, aby pom\u00e1hali chr\u00e1ni\u0165 zdravie a \u017eivoty \u017eien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Success-Stories<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a> Artificial Intelligence and a Supercomputer as a New Weapon Against Environmental Disasters<\/strong><\/a> 26 Mar<\/span> -<\/span> Scientists from Nitra, Slovakia are teaching machines to predict industrial failures before they can cause damage. Thanks to collaboration with the European supercomputer LUMI, they have developed a digital \u201cguardian\u201d capable of detecting pipeline leaks or manufacturing faults with high accuracy\u2014helping protect both the environment and companies\u2019 budgets.<\/span><\/div>
\"\"<\/a> The Slovak Recipe for Fair Play and Happier Players<\/strong><\/a> 25 Mar<\/span> -<\/span> Do you play games on your phone and sometimes feel like the game just doesn\u2019t understand you? Experts from Nitra, Slovakia, have used one of Europe\u2019s most powerful supercomputers to change that. Thanks to the Italian giant named Leonardo, they discovered how to read between the lines of player behavior and make the gaming experience more personal and fair.<\/span><\/div>
\"\"<\/a> Apply for the EUMaster4HPC Summer School 2026 focused on High-Performance Computing.<\/a> 23 Mar<\/span> -<\/span> From 5 to 14 July 2026, the EUMaster4HPC Summer School titled \u201cHigh-Performance Computing and Emerging Trends\u201d will take place in Luxembourg. The event will be held at the Marienthal Youth Center and the University of Luxembourg in Belval.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strach z rakoviny prsn\u00edka je tich\u00fdm spolo\u010dn\u00edkom mnoh\u00fdch \u017eien. Sta\u010d\u00ed jedno pozvanie na prevent\u00edvne vy\u0161etrenie, jeden telefon\u00e1t od lek\u00e1ra \u010di jedno \u010dakanie na v\u00fdsledky \u2013 a myse\u013e je pln\u00e1 ot\u00e1zok: \u201eSom v poriadku?\u201c \u201e\u010co ak nie?\u201c \u201eM\u00f4\u017ee sa nie\u010do prehliadnu\u0165?\u201c
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