Artificial intelligence technologies can be used to help reduce the time it takes to plan external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for patients with cancer, says draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK.
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Inaugural artificial intelligence recommendations from NICE on radiotherapy contouring should allow clinicians to spend more time with patients and on complex cases where AI is not an option. But large language models are not appropriate in all cases, cautions Adrian Sutherland, principal healthcare architect at Endava consultancy.

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