TOH edition: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 · Science & Technology
While the World Argues About What AI Might Destroy, a Hospital Put It on the Scanner: a Brain Bleed Now Takes Minutes to Find, Not an Hour.
Reported by The Straits Times
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Singapore General Hospital is using an AI screening tool that flags bleeding inside the skull on CT scans within a few minutes, down from the 30 to 60 minutes the check normally takes — time that decides how much brain tissue survives.
The public argument about artificial intelligence is about danger and control. Inside the same technology, a deployed clinical use is now returning minutes to patients whose brains are bleeding.
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