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Addenbrooke’s hospital will be the first in the world to use an artificial intelligence tool.
The Project InnerEye tool highlights tumors and healthy tissue on patient scans, guiding an individual treatment plan.
Speeds up radiotherapy for head and neck, prostate cancers by 13 times than manual methods, without compromising on accuracy.
Microsoft is making the tool freely available as opensource software to speed up its use by hospitals.
Using Project InnerEye, the time to review 2D images of CT scan by a radiation oncologist can be cut by 90%.
AI’s conclusions will be checked and confirmed by a clinical oncologist before the patient receives treatment.
AI could help reduce a “mounting cancer treatment backlog” - Microsoft.
Quicker treatment could also help improve survival rates for some cancers, no hard evidence yet.
Research by Microsoft published in JAMA Network Open.
