Healthcare was the first sector to demonstrate that AI could outperform human specialists in specific diagnostic tasks. The landmark 2016 study in which Google’s AI system matched or exceeded dermatologists in identifying skin cancer from images set the agenda for what followed: a decade of increasingly validated AI applications in radiology, pathology, ophthalmology, cardiology, and clinical decision support.

Healthcare was the first sector to demonstrate that AI could outperform human specialists in specific diagnostic tasks. The landmark 2016 study in which Google’s AI system matched…

In the second part of a series on India's artificial intelligence push, CNA looks at how hospitals are using AI to detect eye diseases and analyse medical scans, while doctors…