By analyzing samples from UCLH, DeepMind Health hopes to develop a technique to reduce the time it takes to map out areas that need treatment to an hour. It won't make the process called "segmentation" automated. Clinicians will still be in charge, but it will make planning easier for medical professionals and will free up more of their time for patient care, education and research. DeepMind also intends to use the data it gleans from analyzing the samples to develop a radiotherapy segmentation algorithm that can be applied to other parts of the body.

This the third DeepMind-NHS partnership that the division has launched. The first one focused on mobile apps to deliver patients' medical data to doctors, while the second one analyzed eye scans to conjure up a method that can detect eye diseases early.