AI to help doctors spot lung cancer quicker and more accurately is set to be rolled out at NHS hospitals in England.
More than £21million has been allocated for the tech, which analyses X-rays and CT scans to diagnose the deadly disease.
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It will start being used at 64 hospital trusts across the country from this winter.
Health Secretary Steve Barclay said: “Patients deserve the best care possible.
“AI is already being used in the NHS to halve treatment times for stroke patients and to assist doctors in analysing brain scans.
“We’re building on this success to make sure lung cancer patients get the support they need, when they need it.”
Around 48,500 Brits are diagnosed with lung cancer every year, making it the third most common form of the disease in the country.
Some 34,8000 die from it every year — the most of any cancer in the UK.
Survival chances are much higher if the disease is caught early, before it spreads to other organs.
Some 600,000 chest X-rays are performed every month in England and health bosses hope the new tech will help spot tumours in their first stages.
Previous research has shown AI could detect early signs of the disease years before doctors would find it on a CT scan.
Artificial intelligence has already been used on the NHS to diagnose stroke patients and get them faster emergency treatment.
The tech is also used to provide patients with their personalised risk of heart attack, allowing doctors to intervene earlier.
It comes after Mr Barclay last week announced £100million in Government investment in AI on the health service.
Dr Vin Diwakar, of NHS England, said: “Artificial intelligence is already helping to save lives.
“This investment will allow 64 NHS trusts from across the country to harness the power of AI to tools to speed up the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.”
What NHS hospital trusts will receive part of the £21million funding?
East And North Hertfordshire NHS TrustWest Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustRoyal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation TrustJames Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustThe Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustWest Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustNorth West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustBedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustEast Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation TrustMid And South Essex NHS Foundation TrustNorfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon North West University Healthcare Nhs TrustThe Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustChelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustImperial College Healthcare NHS TrustBarts Health NHS TrustBarking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustHomerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustSherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation TrustLeicestershire Partnership NHS TrustHull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustYork And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorthern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation TrustCounty Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation TrustGateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustNorth Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustNorth Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustNorthumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustSouth Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSouth Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBolton NHS Foundation TrustManchester University NHS Foundation TrustNorthern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustTameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustThe Christie NHS Foundation TrustStockport Nhs Foundation TrustWrightington, Wigan And Leigh NHS Foundation TrustThe Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation TrustCountess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustEast Cheshire NHS TrustMid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool Heart And Chest Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWarrington And Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool Women’s NHS Foundation TrustWirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustUniversity Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustRoyal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustRoyal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustTorbay And South Devon NHS Foundation TrustUniversity Hospitals SussexAshford And St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustEast Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustRoyal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustQueen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation TrustSurrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust