Doctors believe Artificial Intelligence is now saving lives, after a major advancement in breast cancer screenings. A.I. is detecting early signs of the disease, in some cases years before doctors would find the cancer on a traditional scan. A chemotherapy alternative called immunotherapy is showing promise in treating cancer -- and a new artificial intelligence tool could help ensure that patients have the best possible experience. Immunotherapy, first approved in 2011, uses the cancer patient's own immune system to target and fight cancer. While it doesn't work for everyone, for the 15% to 20% who do see results, it can be life-saving.

A new artificial intelligence tool can accurately identify cancer in a development doctors and scientists said could speed up diagnosis of the disease. The algorithm performs more effectively than current methods, according to a study. It can identify whether abnormal growths found on CT scans are cancerous. The AI tool, designed by experts at the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Imperial College London, could fast-track patients to treatment. A new artificial intelligence tool can accurately identify cancer in a development doctors and scientists said could speed up diagnosis of the disease.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool being used in the NHS can detect heart disease at record speed, experts say. The computer tool, which mimics human ability but with greater precision and at a faster speed, can analyse heart MRI scans in just 20 seconds while the patient is in the scanner. This is much quicker than the 13 minutes or more it would take for a doctor to manually examine the images after an MRI scan, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), which has funded research into the tool. The technique also detects changes to the heart structure and function with 40% higher accuracy and extracts more information than a human can, the BHF said. A new study concluded the technique was more precise at analysing MRIs than the work of three specialist doctors.

Google launched new artificial intelligence tools for healthcare providers to search through medical documentation on Nov. 10, according to a Google Cloud blog post. Healthcare professionals can now preview Google's Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare, tools designed to streamline medical documentation review and analysis. The tools aim to reduce burnout and increase back-office and clinical practice productivity. Healthcare Natural Language Processing combs through documents to identify medical insights and extracts information about procedures, medications, vital signs and conditions. Companies can also use the tool to interpret unstructured digital text, such as identifying relevant information from a transcript of telehealth visits.

Arla Foods has developed a new artificial intelligence tool to better predict their milk intake from farmer-owners. This means that 200 million kilos of milk can now be utilised better each year making Arla's value chain even more sustainable. Every year, Arla collects around 13 billion kilos of milk from their 10,300 farmer-owners across Northern Europe. To transform as much as possible into healthy and more sustainable dairy products, the cooperative is keeping a close eye on emerging technologies that can make the dairy production even more efficient. Most recently, Arla has developed a tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict how much milk 1,5 million cows will produce in the future.

The search function in Google Photos uses TensorFlow. Google made waves Monday when it made its new artificial intelligence system TensorFlow open source. Google has used TensorFlow for the past year for a variety of applications. For example, Google Photos is scary good at search because it uses TensorFlow to recognize places based on popular landmarks or characteristics, like the Yosemite National Park mountain range. Other Google products that use TensorFlow include Google search, Google's voice recognition app, and Google Translate.

Google has just unveiled what is arguably the most sophisticated artificial intelligence software in the world, when it comes to understanding the English language. The technology is so powerful that it is able to analyse the linguistic structure of language, and explain the functional role of each word in a given sentence. So what has Google decided to call this wonder machine? In the past, the American technology giant has given its AI projects futuristic names like TensorFlow and DeepDream, to convey their awesome potential and weighty purpose. But no, you've guessed it.