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World's first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery has tumour removed
Confirmed
"For 18 years of married life I've always got out of bed and made my wife a cup of coffee," Hibbert said, "and I wasn't going to let this tumour stop that. James Frith, health innovation Minister, said he was pleased that Rhys that he had "life-changing surgery" as part of government funded research.
It allowed them to safely remove as much of the tumour as possible. Their long-term ambition is to develop a type of ChatGPT for surgeons, so there can be "another expert in the room they can turn to for advice if they want it - or leave if they disagree with it," said Prof Marcus.
"It is trained on more operations than most surgeons see or do in a lifetime and can act like an expert second pair of eyes," said Prof Hani Marcus, who helped carry out the procedure. Rhys Hibbert, a father-of-two from Bedfordshire, could have lost his sight without the operation, said surgeons at University College London Hospital.
"When I opened my eyes after the operation it felt like I had got 360-degree vision - I hadn't seen that clearly for a year," said Hibbert. "If patients are not prepared to join research how can doctors ever learn and how can medicine ever progress?" he said.
He said the biggest impacts for him were emotional and psychological. There are no road signs inside our head," said Hibbert.
What's confirmed
- "For 18 years of married life I've always got out of bed and made my wife a cup of coffee," Hibbert said, "and I wasn't going to let this tumour stop that.
- It allowed them to safely remove as much of the tumour as possible.
- "It is trained on more operations than most surgeons see or do in a lifetime and can act like an expert second pair of eyes," said Prof Hani Marcus, who helped carry out the procedure.
- "When I opened my eyes after the operation it felt like I had got 360-degree vision - I hadn't seen that clearly for a year," said Hibbert.
- He said the biggest impacts for him were emotional and psychological.
What's still developing
- Rhys Hibbert, a father-of-two from Bedfordshire, could have lost his sight without the operation, said surgeons at University College London Hospital.
- It allowed them to safely remove as much of the tumour as possible.
- There are no road signs inside our head," said Hibbert.
- "For 18 years of married life I've always got out of bed and made my wife a cup of coffee," Hibbert said, "and I wasn't going to let this tumour stop that.
- He said the biggest impacts for him were emotional and psychological.
- "If patients are not prepared to join research how can doctors ever learn and how can medicine ever progress?" he said.
- "It is trained on more operations than most surgeons see or do in a lifetime and can act like an expert second pair of eyes," said Prof Hani Marcus, who helped carry out the procedure.
- Their long-term ambition is to develop a type of ChatGPT for surgeons, so there can be "another expert in the room they can turn to for advice if they want it - or leave if they disagree with it," said Prof Marcus.