Health Technology: The Digital Revolution - Part 1: AI & Imaging -- Clustermarket

Chronic diseases are on the rise, with a threefold increase in the number of those with cancer in the last 40 years (1). In the face of mounting pressure in healthcare, all available technologies are being leveraged to deliver innovations that will provide sustainable long-term solutions. Hospitals are producing up to 50 petabytes (10 15) of data annually (2). With this in mind, image-analysis tools have been developed using AI that assist clinicians in the diagnoses of such conditions and provide increased precision for administering treatments such as radiotherapy. Recent developments in imaging are able to show tissues in three dimensions, allowing these specially trained AI algorithms to analyse them AI and imaging is a particularly important innovation for cancer treatment as it enables the precise location, type and stage of tumour to be identified (3).