Kathryn Peper is an internal medicine physician.
As a physician trying to keep up with all the new information about artificial intelligence, I want to know how machine learning and deep learning are impacting medicine now and to separate the hype from reality. Here’s a look at some ways AI is being used successfully in health care and some ways it is not.
AI has been validated for use in interpreting medical scans, pathology slides, and reading electrocardiograms. …
Physicians and other health care professionals are uniquely suited to understand artificial intelligence. They’ve studied or routinely use mathematics, data analysis, and algorithms. They comprehend pattern recognition, decision trees, rules-based systems, and statistics. These are the very components of AI. Perhaps the only thing our premed and medical training didn’t teach us was how to code. But we understand how coding is done. Add to this our training in how …
For many months, artificial intelligence has been in my peripheral vision, just sitting there, ignored by me because it seemed too far in the future to be interesting now.
And then, there were all these terms — Big Data, machine learning, data science — which circled the subject and, frankly, gave me a bit of a headache.
Artificial intelligence is upon us, unleashed and unbridled in its ability to transform the world. …
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