Google announced a slew of new healthcare AI partnerships Tuesday, as well as an open source tool kit for developing digital health tools and new search functionality, reports Mobi Health News.
In the AI space, the tech giant said it has been working with the Mayo Clinic for the past three years to research tools for radiotherapy planning during cancer treatment.
The partners focused on developing a model that could automatically outline or contour around organs on CT scans, limiting their exposure to radiation.
“Historically, this has been a very time consuming process requiring over seven hours of manual labor by experts in order to plan a single patient’s treatment,” Greg Corrado, health AI lead at Google, said during a press preview. “[…] After a successful phase of research, we’re really excited to share that we’re enabling Mayo Clinic to bring this jointly developed technology to clinicians in real-world use cases moving forward.”
Google said the partners would now focus on further research, model development and commercialization.
