Mayo Clinic and Google Health have announced a partnership to develop artificial intelligence that can help accelerate the process of planning radiotherapy treatments, leading to more efficient cancer care.
More than 18 million new cancer cases are diagnosed globally each year, with radiotherapy being one of the most common treatments. However, planning for a course of radiotherapy treatment is an extremely time-intensive process.
The method includes a painstaking step in which a clinician has to perform a technique known as contouring. Providers must segment both areas of cancer and nearby healthy tissues that are susceptible to radiation damage during treatment. Physicians have to draw lines around sensitive organs on scans – a process that can take up to seven hours for a single patient.
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