University College London Hospitals (UCLH) has announced “the first use of artificial intelligence [AI] to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery.” The procedure “protected the sight of a man having a brain tumor removed,” stated the institution.
The operation was performed at the UCLH’s National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery as “part of a clinical trial using AI technology developed in-house at UCL and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).”
UCLH states that instead of using preoperative scans, the AI analyzed the live surgical video feed in real time to help the surgical team “make more precise decisions by highlighting critical structures at the base of the brain.”
Read much more the landmark procedure here.
