As reported by The Guardian, artificial intelligence could help NHS surgeons perform 300 more operations and with better success rates
The National Institute for Health and Care Research has provided researches with £1m to develop the project that uses artificial intelligence to examine the suitability of an organ for transplant. The technology will be known as OrQA, that is, Organ Quality Assessment.
The tool is expected to increase the amount of patients receiving kidney and liver transplants in the UK by 200 and 100 annually.
The AI could help surgeons partake in 300 more transplant surgeries that generally occur yearly. Staff usually have to assess an organ’s quality based on their own judgement which leaves much room for error. The ai is expected to improve success rates by scoring organs against the images of the ones that have been previously used in operations.
The NHS Blood and Transplant organisation (NHSBT) has expressed support for the project as they tackle a waiting list of over 7,000 transplant patients.
“This is an exciting development in technological infrastructure that, once validated, will enable surgeons and transplant clinicians to make more informed decisions about organ usage and help to close the gap between those patients waiting for and those receiving lifesaving organs,” says Derek Manas, organ donation and transplantation medical director of the NHSBT
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