AI assists in real-time brain surgery for the first time
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- A 48-year-old British patient became the first person to undergo brain-tumor removal with real-time AI assistance during surgery.
- Doctors used the technology in an operation intended to prevent the patient from losing his sight.
A patient in the United Kingdom has become the first person in the world to undergo brain-tumor removal with artificial intelligence assisting in real time during the operation.
Rhys Hibbert, 48, faced the possibility of blindness without surgery. Doctors used the technology during the procedure in an effort to save his sight.
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Originally published by Confidencial in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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