AI boosts cervical cancer diagnoses

Inside a facility in Wuhan, Hubei province, tens of thousands of cervical smears will be checked each day for abnormal cells that may develop into cancer.

Such a workload is unimaginable in any major hospital as a pathologist is able to read no more than 100 samples a day.

But nowadays, advances in artificial intelligence have made it possible to accelerate cervical cancer screening and expand the service to women from urban and less developed, rural regions.