Central Florida woman credits artificial intelligence at Orlando Health with saving her life WFTV [Video]

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A Central Florida woman credits artificial intelligence with saving her life. The tech at Orlando Health detected an unusual mass in her lung.

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“I went in for a follow up with my cardiologist for the scans I had on my heart,” Joyce Morris said. “He said there were nodules on the bottom of my right lung. It snowballed from there, it was so fast.”

A stage one lung cancer diagnosis is not what she expected following a cardiologist appointment back in April.

“I stayed in denial and did a lot of praying,” Morris said.

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A quick catch from the artificial intelligence software that reads CT scans at the hospital caught it early.

“I think if it weren’t for the software catching it, it would’ve never been caught,” Dr. Ali Jiwani, an Interventional …