Before the retail financial services sector incorporates artificial intelligence into its activities, writes Heather Hopkins, it will need to answer some tricky questions around ethics and transparency
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers and yet, with early detection, it can be treated and patients can survive. With 430,000 CT scans and 290,000 MRIs in the UK in 2017, however, radiologists are overworked. As highly skilled doctors, they review hundreds of scans each day. The work can be tedious and human fatigue can lead to errors. Several artificial-intelligence (AI) companies have created algorithms to help radiologists review scans. For one company - Infervision, which is based in Beijing, China - the time to diagnose an image has fallen from three-quarters of an hour to a...
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