Grace, NICE has recommended five artificial intelligence tools for use in the NHS to help read MRI scans for possible prostate cancer.

Computer systems that can do tasks usually done by people, such as finding patterns in information.

Grace, NICE has recommended five artificial intelligence tools for use in the NHS to help read MRI scans for possible prostate cancer.

Images made using a strong magnet to show the inside of the body.

Its committee said they could improve how accurately and consistently radiologists read prostate MRI scans.

Images made using a strong magnet to show the inside of the body.

MRI scans can help doctors look for signs of prostate cancer.

Images made using a strong magnet to show the inside of the body.

A radiologist, a doctor who reads medical images, would still review the scan and the AI result.

A doctor who examines medical images to help find or understand illness.

A radiologist, a doctor who reads medical images, would still review the scan and the AI result.

Here, to look at something carefully and judge what it shows.

By pointing out areas to check, they could help radiologists focus their review.

Here, a careful examination of the scan.

So the recommendation allows hospitals to use them while more evidence is collected.

Information that helps show whether something is true or works well.

What evidence does NICE still want?

Information that helps show whether something is true or works well.

NICE says more evidence is needed about how well the tools perform in everyday NHS care.

Information that helps show whether something is true or works well.

NICE has set a two-year period to gather more evidence.

Information that helps show whether something is true or works well.

NICE says more evidence is needed about how well the tools perform in everyday NHS care.

Here, how well the tools do their job.

Its committee said they could improve how accurately and consistently radiologists read prostate MRI scans.

In the same reliable way each time.

The committee said the tools may be especially helpful where specialist experience is limited.

Knowledge gained by working in a particular area of medicine.

NICE says some prostate tumours can be monitored for changes because they are unlikely to cause symptoms.

Here, doctors can keep checking the tumours over time to see if they change.

NICE reported more than 58,000 new prostate cancer diagnoses in England in 2023.

A finding by a doctor that someone has a particular illness.