A team of neurosurgeons in London have used AI to help them operate on a man’s brain.
The AI tool analyzed live footage of the operation and flagged key brain structures like nerves and blood vessels as surgeons removed a large tumor on the patient’s pituitary gland, according to The Guardian, ensuring that they didn’t poke around where they shouldn’t be.
The surgery, performed at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in May, saved the eyesight of the patient, 48-year-old Rhys Hibbert. Details of the procedure, though, were kept under wraps until now.
“When I came round… I could see everything in the room clearly,” Hibbert told The Guardian. Before the surgery, he couldn’t walk on his own without glasses or walking sticks.
