AI-assisted surgery removes brain tumor in world first for British patient

Patient Rhys Hibbert's eyesight was preserved through the AI-assisted procedure, allowing him to return to work post-surgery.

In a London operating theatre this past May, a 48-year-old man named Rhys Hibbert became the first person in the world to have a brain tumor removed with the real-time guidance of artificial intelligence — a moment that quietly redrew the boundary between human skill and machine perception. The surgery, performed at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery by a team from University College London, succeeded not by replacing the surgeon's hand but by illuminating what that hand could not otherwise see. It is a reminder that the most consequential revolutions in medicine often arrive

AI-assisted surgery removes brain tumor in world first for British patient

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