AI cuts treatment time for cancer radiotherapy.

A new type of AI technology aimed at reducing the time cancer patients wait before starting radiation therapy will be offered to all National Health Service departments in England.

Researchers at Addenbrooke's Hospital have been working on it for nearly a decade and trained the program using Microsoft. It helps doctors calculate where to direct therapeutic radiation beams, killing cancer cells and sparing as many healthy cells as possible. The program works two and a half times faster than a team of doctors, allowing more patients to receive answers as soon as possible.

The government has invested in AI projects throughout the NHS, but this is the first artificial intelligence program to actually be released as a medical imaging device.