Normally, checking each piece of extracted tissue takes 30 minutes - but AI does it much quicker, shortening surgery times dramatically. CGTN's Johannes Pleschberger reports from Vienna.
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00:00Tumor surgeries are usually lengthy. Pathologists carefully check every piece of extracted tissue for cancer cells, taking around 30 minutes for each sample.
00:10In Vienna, this waiting time in the operating room is now much shorter.
00:15I take the sample directly in the OR and use our AI tool to get a diagnosis within some seconds.
00:23The artificial intelligence analyzes the tissue in nearly real time during the surgery.
00:29Georg, the AI tool shows no tumor cells.
00:32Together with colleagues from Michigan, California and New York, Viennese neurosurgeon Georg Wittheim has helped develop and test the fast Glioma AI tool during brain surgeries.
00:43The results are promising. The machine was able to detect the spread of tumors with 92% accuracy.
00:49This is a pioneering technique that allows rapid tissue characterization directly in the operating room.
00:56And I'm sure that this technique will be widely used in the next years in several medical disciplines and also several hospitals worldwide.
01:05Fast Glioma is a refined version of a previous AI tool.
01:09By training the new software with 4 million images, the scientists further reduced the machine's processing time.
01:17With the world's growing and aging population, hospitals are starting to rely on artificial intelligence to deal with rising caseloads.
01:24Experts predict that once AI is perfected and built into platforms, most surgeries will be entirely performed by machines.
01:32Robotics with AI would much increase also the precision of the procedures, the safety.
01:39So I think that's really a great combination.
01:44Now that the fast Glioma study is completed, Wittheim and his team are waiting for EU approval to introduce the newest AI tool as standard operating procedure.
01:54Johannes Blechberger, CGTN, Vienna.