IBM's Watson AI saved a woman from leukemia

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  IBM's Watson has done everything from winning at Jeopardy to cooking exotic meals, but it appears to have accomplished its greatest feat yet: saving a life. University of Tokyo doctors report that the artificial intelligence diagnosed a 60-year-old woman's rare form of leukemia  that had been incorrectly identified months earlier. The analytical  machine took just 10 minutes to compare the patient's genetic changes  with a database of 20 million cancer research papers, delivering an  accurate diagnosis and leading to proper treatment that had proven  elusive. Watson has also identified another rare form of leukemia in  another patient, the university says.


 

   It'll likely take a long while before Watson and other AI systems  are regularly providing advice at hospitals, and it won't be all that  useful in situations without readily comparable data. We've asked the  school for more details of what happened. However, the diagnoses show  just how useful the technology could be in the medical world. Human  doctors wouldn't have to spend ages sifting through research to identify  an obscure disease, or hope that another hospital can offer insights --  they'd just plug in the right data and start the healing process.



              Via:         NDTV
         Source:                 NHK World


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lol this is why I use it for my healthcare. Watson is amazing and I cannot wait to see what all it will do in the future.