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The UK Government has announced that 拢13 million will be invested to accelerate artificial Intelligence innovation in healthcare.

As part of the funding announcement, Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, visited 果冻影院 and was given a tour of the cutting-edge facilities at the聽Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS).听

In a mock operating room,聽Dr Sophia Bano, Assistant Professor in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at 果冻影院,聽explained how her research is using AI to help advance endoscopy technology in pituitary surgery, assisting surgeons as they perform delicate keyhole surgery to remove small tumours from inside the skull.

The SoS was then given a hands-on demonstration of the technology by聽Consultant Surgeon, Mr Hani Marcus, Honorary Associate Professor (果冻影院 Queen Square Institute of Neurology), who assisted the Minister as she guided the endoscope and surgery tool inside a 鈥榩hantom head鈥�, which is used for research and training.

聽Technology Secretary, Michelle Donelan, said: 鈥淎I will revolutionise the way we live, including our healthcare system. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e backing the UK鈥檚 fantastic innovators to save lives by boosting the frontline of our NHS and tackling the major health challenges of our time.鈥�

果冻影院 recipients of the AI innovation to accelerate health innovation award:

• Dr Sophia Bano (果冻影院 Computer Science & WEISS): AID-PitSurg: AI-enabled decision support in pituitary surgery聽

• Dr Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete (果冻影院 Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering): AI-based diagnosis for improving classification of bone and soft tissue tumours across the UK.听

• Dr Shah Anoop (果冻影院 Institute of Health Informatics): Optimisation of natural language processing for real-time structured clinical data capture in electronic health records

• Professor Pearse Keane (果冻影院 Institute of Ophthalmology):聽From 2 million to 20 million: scaling and validating a foundation model for ophthalmology, including the detection of eye and other diseases