Somerset hospitals start using AI tool to help detect prostate cancer

The team at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (left to right): Dr Paul Burn, Neil Trent, Miriam Spicer, Adam Turner.
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has joined forces with technology company, Lucida Medical, to become the first NHS trust in the UK to introduce its AI tool, called Pi, to work alongside teams of radiologists. With support from charities Macmillan Cancer Support and Prostate Cancer Research, the Pi tool is being introduced at both Yeovil District and Musgrove Park hospitals to assist radiologists in detecting clinically significant prostate cancer, using an AI technique that looks at a prostate MRI scan. Macmillan estimates that th... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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