Health – medicine and artificial intelligence

The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is enormous. The latest progress has made progress in the diagnosis of the disease possible. This is how Professor Chrétien explained a group of rare childhood tumors at Nancy CHRU on November 21, 2018: “Today, a classical neural network (…) freely available on the Internet works just as well, if we give it a lot of data, as a local expert pathologist”.

The fact that artificial intelligence can be fed millions of cases allows it to gather unparalleled experience. Especially in the case of rare diseases. And thus have expertise that a general practitioner will never be able to build during his career. The idea is of course not to eliminate doctors, but to equip them with diagnostic tools.

Numerous studies confirm the effectiveness of artificial intelligence in diagnosing certain diseases.

This is especially the case with certain types of cancer, including skin cancer. Finally, it can facilitate screening when access to care is difficult or infrequent. Countries with weak health systems and raising awareness among the general public can save lives. So, an application intended for the analysis of moles can save the life of people who would not decide to consult a dermatologist.

Artificial intelligence is not limited to medical diagnosis.

In addition to diagnosis, artificial intelligence can help design and dose personalized treatments, tailored to each patient’s needs.

However, it is not infallible, as the recent COVID-19 crisis caused by the coronavirus shows: artificial intelligence is only useful if a sufficient database of cases is established for a given problem.

The pandemic also paves the way for a new use case for artificial intelligence in healthcare: that of monitoring, which is triggering numerous discussions about ethics and artificial intelligence.

Articles describing the impact of artificial intelligence in the health and medical sector.