Cone Health is using an A.I. tool to identify cancer in patients [Video]

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Artificial Intelligence has seeped into almost every aspect of life. 

Today it’s being used to transform the practice of medicine and it’s all happening behind the scenes so care for patients isn’t changing.

Cone Health’s Radiology and Oncology Department has been using Artificial Intelligence for five years to detect cancer

Here’s how it all works. With the A.I. tool, doctors are able to go in and see the body parts on a CT Scan for their patients automatically.

For example, let’s say a patient comes in to get radiation, the patient will receive a CT Scan like normal. 

With that scan, their body is being seen in three dimensions by the A.I. tool drawing the patient’s specific body parts.

“It’s sort of like a crayon on the computer screen and do …