During a recent session at the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center in Guangzhou, doctors demonstrated the approach on a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a type of cancer that starts in the nasopharynx—the upper part of the throat behind the nose. Chinese scientists have applied artificial intelligence to help doctors more precisely separate tumors from surrounding healthy tissue—a process they liken to removing pits from fruits—improving the accuracy of radiotherapy while limiting damage to v... [3031 chars]