IBM Watson, a super computer powered with artificial intelligence, correctly diagnosed and prescribed a lukemia treatment to a female patient who had been baffling medical professionals for years.
According to a recent article, the mighty machine spent just ten minutes studying the patient’s medical information and was able to cross-reference her condition against 20 million oncological records, which had been uploaded to its system by doctors from the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science.
It discovered the patient actually had a varying form of leukaemia than first diagnosed and told doctors it required different treatment than previously prescribed. According to a report by Silicon Angle, the new treatment proved far more effective than original methods.
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