Artificial intelligence helps doctors detect lung cancer

Tech Life

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.4 • 221 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

An artificial intelligence tool is helping to detect chest issues, which could indicate lung cancer, in a matter of seconds. It's now in use in forty countries around the world. It's called Annalise AI, and we speak to the co-founder of the company behind it.

Also on Tech Life:

In Kenya, Direct Air Capture technology is being designed, manufactured and deployed in the vast Rift valley.

And the commute of the future is being mapped out and planned today - find out about digital twinning.

Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn

(Photo: A doctor examines an X-ray image on a tablet. Credit: Athima Tongloom/Getty Images)

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0:28.0	Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, the programme that's about the stuff that's all around us.
0:34.0	I mean technology and how it affects you.
0:36.9	I'm Chris Valence, and today we hear of
0:39.3	new hope in the battle against lung cancer thanks to AI. That's in a moment. Also today,
0:45.6	a pilot project in Kenya is using carbon capture technology designed and manufactured locally.
0:52.9	The reactor capture simply is filtering carbon dioxide from that atmosphere.
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1:32.2	Thank you. planned today. I find out about digital twinning. We start today by looking at one of the latest improvements in healthcare,
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