Cancer patients in Scotland are being diagnosed more speedily - and treated sooner - thanks to a ground-breaking project using artificial intelligence (AI).
Scots clinical trial sees tumours caught earlier Cancer patients in Scotland are being diagnosed more speedily – and treated sooner – thanks to a ground-breaking project using artificial intelligence .
Using a comparative database of hundreds of thousands of previous X-rays, AI can also quickly identify the most serious cases which are then red-flagged for further tests and urgent treatment. The system is being used to detect lung cancer cases in Aberdeenshire, and NHS Grampian’s clinical director of innovation Dr Andy Keen believes AI will soon prove transformative for many other types of cancer.
If our early results hold true, then that could mean 600 more people per year in Scotland diagnosed with treatable lung cancer.’ Installed at 12 sites across the health board, the AI was ‘trained’ to detect tumours after having more than 820,000 chest X-ray images from patients around the world uploaded to its database.Dr Andy Keen believes AI will soon prove transformative for many other types of cancerAlthough the trial is ongoing, early data studied by the Scottish Health Technology Group shows the AI was proving successful at spotting tumours.
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