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Vjosa Isai
New York Times·
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Dr Amin Madani, left, and Dr Timothy Jackson, right, perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery on a patient at Toronto General Hospital, with the help of visual AI guides. Photo / Cole Burston, The New York Times
Canada wants to leverage AI to improve its healthcare system. At a Toronto hospital, surgeons are training a machine to distinguish a safe incision from a catastrophic one.
Under shadowless operating room lights at Toronto General Hospital, two surgeons clipped away at a pear-shaped gall bladder they were removing from