Defense One: New augmented-reality microscopes, powered by AI, will change how doctors detect cancer, and finally begin to fulfill the promise of applying artificial intelligence to medical imagery. The Defense Innovation Unit recently awarded a contract to Google Cloud to deliver the AI models to power a pilot program called Predictive Health, Defense One has learned.
Here’s how it will work: a doctor or researcher looking through a special microscope at, say, potentially cancerous tissue samples, will see information projected on areas that deserve close scrutiny, as determined by an algorithm trained on vast Defense Department databases of cancer imagery.
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