Google strikes deal to offer AI medical scanning to detect cancer

Zebra Medical Vision, an artificial intelligence (AI) health start-up, has partnered with Google to offer its algorithms on the search giant's cloud. The Israeli firm has created AI algorithms to read medical scans and detect anything untoward before humans can. Currently, its software can spot issues such as liver and lung disease and it is working on capabilities to recognise breast cancer and lung cancer. Zebra recently announced that all of its algorithms will be available to use for US$1 per scan. So, each time a hospital uses the algorithm to study a medical scan it will be charged US$1.