Yitu’s new tool highlights an AI application area in which China is strong – in part because of the country’s AI drive but also because the country is home to one in every five cancer patients globally, according to government statistics. Photo: SCMP
Yitu’s new tool highlights an AI application area in which China is strong – in part because of the country’s AI drive but also because the country is home to one in every five cancer patients globally, according to government statistics. Photo: SCMP
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exclusive | Yitu unveils new AI cancer detection tool, hailing such products ‘great creations in human history’

  • The start-up is one of dozens of AI companies that have emerged to apply know-how in computer vision and natural language processing to detecting cancer

Sarah Dai
Sarah Dai

Updated: 11:00am, 29 Nov, 2018

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Yitu’s new tool highlights an AI application area in which China is strong – in part because of the country’s AI drive but also because the country is home to one in every five cancer patients globally, according to government statistics. Photo: SCMP
Yitu’s new tool highlights an AI application area in which China is strong – in part because of the country’s AI drive but also because the country is home to one in every five cancer patients globally, according to government statistics. Photo: SCMP
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