AI laser probe for prostate cancer enters clinical trials

AI software capable of mapping tumor tissue more accurately to help surgeons treat and shrink prostate cancer using a laser-powered needle will soon be tested in real patients during clinical trials. The National Cancer Institute estimated that approximately 12.6 percent of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some …

[Paul Herber]

Prostate tests have been digital for a long time.

[Warm Braw]

You seem to have more thumbs up than I would be comfortable with...

[Fruit and Nutcase]

sure there is a bit of anal-log as well in the examination?

[Ken Moorhouse]

Re: Prostate tests have been digital for a long time.

Thanks Paul, you've rectal possibility of me making a witty comment.

(BTW I would like to nominate your comment "Comment of the Week", and it's only Monday).

[Il'Geller]

Please stop to label everything “AI”.

[bpfh]

“AI” is the sound you make when they insert the probe

No more Paris icon unfortunately.

[chivo243]

Re: “AI” is the sound you make when they insert the probe

"Aieee" is more like it!

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: “AI” is the sound you make when they insert the probe

No more Paris icon unfortunately.

Need to bring a writ of habeas corpus[icon] against The Register

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Re: “AI” is the sound you make when they insert the probe

"No NO not the anal probe".

[Paul Hovnanian]

This may explain. ..

... that scene with the laser in Dr. No.

[A.P. Veening]

Re: This may explain. ..

I was thinking about the laser scene in Goldfinger.

[Anonymous Coward]

A .... I .... just remembered an appointment I really need to go to .... NOW !!!

Gives new meaning to the phrase .....

"To boldly go where no-one has gone before."

particularly as it involves AI, Needles and Lasers !!!

Why not go the whole hog and add the Sharks and Dolphins !!!

:)

[chuckufarley]

Just what we need...

...More sharks with lasers. Can't someone give the Crossing Guards lasers?

Seriously, I doubt most Americans will be able to afford such a screening for a generation or more. The better it works the longer it will take for the majority of patients to have access to it. That's because Obama Care isn't Health Care, it's just health insurance.

By giving lasers to the Crossing Guards near schools we could generate income for municipalities in the form of speeding tickets. This income could then fund actual Health Care for children and adults with cancer.

[Martin-73]

UGH again

The register is a UK publication, please flag the foreign "national cancer institute" as 'of a foreign nation'

[Anonymous Coward]

And here was me wondering: "How are the machines planning to eradicate us if the Teslas are recalled?"

[Auntie Dix]

Insurance Coverage Lacking? Look to the Skies

The AI laser probe for prostate cancer will never reach critical (m)ass, unless our alien friends conduct more onboard anal probes.

[Steve 114]

If clear, try Rezum

Just had a 'Rezum' job done, recommended. Consultant wouldn't play until an MRI seen, and images hardly needed 'AI' to show clear (I got mine on CD). Apart from that, laser ablation if needed has been an option for quite a while.

[OldCrow 1975]

Think of Autopilot.

Can you imagine an AI PROBE having an accident every 8 minutes.

[John Smith 19]

But can it explain *why* it lasered some chunk of that prostrate off?

Don't know.

[Anonymous Coward]

First mental image: Mr. Scott saying "...You want to stick your phaser WHERE, Dr. McCoy?"

[The Oncoming Scorn]

They Must Think

That the sun shines into his ass.