Software provides improved diagnoses

Software developed with artificial intelligence technologies and used at a top hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, has the ability to read computer tomography images almost as accurately as an experienced physician.

The software - AlphaGo - can read a CT image and provide a result within five seconds. It is able to spot lung tumors with an accuracy rate of up to 90 percent, according to Xia Liming, director of radiology at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, which developed the software with an information technology company.

The software, which has a database containing more than 100,000 CT chest images, has been designed to perform logical analysis, which makes its interpretation of such images faster and more accurate than many physicians. Since it was introduced at the hospital in June, AlphaGo has become a useful aid for radiologists, according to Xia.