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 it very very accurately do it very consistently between our staff and providers and do it in a way that it allows us to speed up our processes," said Dr. B.J. Sintay, Radiation Oncology Executive Director of Radiation Oncology & Chief Physicist at Cone Health.
Dr. Sintay says Cone Health has been using the tool for five years. He says A.I. is a great tool for the healthcare field but it there are limits to what it can do.
"A.I. Has it's limitations it can't do everything that a human can do right now. It can struggle with very complicated very fine features parts of the body and we would expect that," Dr. Sintay said.
Dr. Sintay says Cone Health hopes to continue expanding what the A.I. tool can do.