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King's College London
AI-enabled healthcare provides early patient diagnoses
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Developments throughout engineering are transforming modern healthcare. The University’s School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, part of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, has created a world-leading research environment for the development and implementation of advanced healthcare engineering to combat a range of diseases.
The School’s work covers medical imaging, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Innovative applications include deploying six clinical MRI scanners and the UK’s first ultra-powerful cyclotron-supported PET-MRI scanner. These academic advances directly translate into improved patient care, reaching around 11,000 people a year. The School’s work also delivers reduced costs to the NHS as a by-product.