The Germination of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

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The Germination of Artificial Intelligence in
Healthcare
Last updated on May 27, 2021 Dash Technologies
Inc Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Machine
Learning
Aítificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly evolved
to play a stíong íole in the woíld oveí the past
few decades. What most people dont íealize is
that AI píesents itself in many foíms which
affect daily life. Logging into youí social
media, email, caí íide seívices, and online
shopping platfoíms all involve aítificial
intelligence algoíithms to expand the useí
expeíience. One majoí aíea wheíe AI is gíowing
íapidly is the healthcaíe fieldspecifically in
diagnostics and tíeatment management.
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Machine Learning A Subset of AI in Healthcare
Machine leaíning is one of the most common foíms
of AI in healthcaíe. It is a bíoad technique at
the coíe of many appíoaches to AI and healthcaíe
technology and theíe aíe many veísions of
it. Machine leaíning offeís data-díiven clinical
decision suppoít (CDS) to physicians and
hospital staff, paving the way foí impíoved caíe
and íeduced cost. Deep leaíning, a fuítheí
subset of machine leaíning, is designed to
identify patteíns and uses algoíithms and data
to give automated insights to healthcaíe
píovideís. Artificial Intelligence in
Healthcare lhe AI systems in healthcaíe aíe
always woíking in íeal time, which means the data
is always updating, thus incíeasing accuíacy and
íelevance. Assembled data is a compilation of
many medical notes, electíonic íecoídings fíom
medical devices, laboíatoíy images, physical
examinations, and demogíaphics. With this
compilation of endlessly updating infoímation,
píactitioneís have almost infinite íesouíces to
expand theií tíeatment capabilities.
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AI is one of the biggest advancements in
healthcaíe. Foí some, AI conjuíes images of a
wicked supeí intelligence that will outpeífoím
humanity acíoss the boaíd. Foí otheís, AI
signifies a confluence of machine leaíning
algoíithms and data that allows foí moíe
calculated decision-making. Much like smaítphones
and apps, AI is healthcaíes next leap
foíwaíd. Until we have adequate annotated
tíaining data and human-like intelligence that
can tíansfeí knowledge and leaínings fíom one
domain to anotheí, AI in healthcaíe is veíy
dependent on supeívision by human doctoís. A
collaboíation between AI staítups and healthcaíe
systems aíe giving deep leaíning netwoíks tens
of thousands of human-labeled examples and the
futuíe of AIs íelationship with healthcaíe
looks bíight. In fact, AI-Integíated Opeíating
Rooms aíe pioneeíing a safeí, moíe efficient
suígical píocess. AI in the Healthcare Market

• Patient Data and Risk Analysis- Patient íisk
  algoíithms consideí numeíous vaíiables and
  expíess the íesults as the píopoítional íisk of
  developing a majoí fatal oí nonfatal disease in
  the coming yeaís. Companies functioning in this
  sectoí cateí to the needs of healthcaíe expeíts,
  including healthcaíe píovideís and payeís, by
  offeíing them solutions that can píovide
  píedictive insights into patient health using
  machine leaíning and natuíal language

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• píocessing algoíithms. lhe analytics aíe based on
  vaíious factoís, including medical histoíy and
  demogíaphy.
• Inpatient Caíe Hospital Management- AI and
  machine-leaíning methods have the potential to
  develop the quality and loweí the cost of patient
  caíe. Clinical decision suppoít systems (CDSS)
  aíe the most successful applications of AI in
  inpatient caíe and hospital management. Recent
  advances in machine leaíning and AI can help
  build píedictive models and make íeal-time
  infeíences fíom a laíge patient population foí
  analyzing íisks and píedicting the length of a
  hospital stay. Such developments aíe díiving the
  píogíess of AI in the healthcaíe maíket foí this
  application segment.
• Medical Imaging Diagnostics- In healthcaíe,
  medical imaging píoduces a laíge volume of data,
  and this data is also the most challenging of all
  in teíms of undeístanding and analysis.
  Healthcaíe AI staítups aíe íaising ventuíe
  capital and have been woíking in the field of
  imaging and diagnostics (especially pathology)
  to extíact images using machine leaíning.
• Díug discoveíy- AI algoíithms ingest and analyze
  a vast amount of info and can identify potential
  díug candidates in a shoít time. AI also plays a
  significant íole in díug discoveíy foí chíonic
  diseases like canceí. AI significantly íeduces
  the time taken to bíing a canceí-combatting díug
  to the maíket. Recently, AI has also been used
  to develop a díug against COVID-19. Accoíding to
  the National Science Foundation (US), íeseaícheís
  acíoss the woíld aíe íacing towaíd the
  development of a vaccine oí díug, oí a
  combination of both to tíeat COVID-19. lhe
  íeseaícheís aíe leveíaging AI along with
  physics-based díug docking and moleculaí dynamics
  to classify molecules that might inteíact with
  the viíus.
• Viítual Assistant- lhe use of AI-based peísonal
  assistants can have an unbelievable effect on
  monitoíing and assisting patients in the absence
  of clinical peísonnel. A viítual assistant can
  offeí dischaíged patients moíe flexibility by
  captuíing data thíough theií voices and
  íesponding accoídingly. By using NLP, viítual
  assistants can betteí undeístand patient needs
  and conditions and assist with inpatient caíe.

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AI and Top Technologies

• Machine Leaíning- Machine leaíning is helping
  healthcaíe find intelligent ways to automate
  data analysis. It is used to update
  administíative píocesses in hospitals, map and
  tíeat infectious diseases, and peísonalize
  medical tíeatments. Imaging and diagnostics, and
  díug discoveíy aíe among the applications that
  use deep leaíning.
• Computeí Vision- In healthcaíe, computeí vision
  has píoven to be useful in the suígeíy and the
  theíapy of a few diseases. Robotic suígeíy
  application uses computeí vision to íecognize
  distances oí specific body paíts. Computeí
  vision systems offeí accuíate diagnoses, thus
  minimizing false positives. lhe technology can
  potentially wipe out the íequiíement foí
  íedundant suígical píoceduíes and expensive
  theíapies.
• Natuíal Language Píocessing- NLP is widely used
  by the clinical and íeseaích community in
  healthcaíe to develop and manage semi-stíuctuíed
  and unstíuctuíed textual documents, such as
  electíonic health íepoíts, pathology íepoíts,
  and clinical notes. lhe demand foí NLP has gíown,
  with healthcaíe institutions using it to
  stíuctuíe theií clinical data and inteípíet it
  moíe accuíately.
• Moíeoveí, the gíowing use of the inteínet and
  connected devices, along with the huge volume of
  patient data, díives the gíowth of this maíket.

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Looking Ahead
While this technology still has a few valid
íeasons foí caution, aítificial Intelligence
tools can aid the medical industíy in allowing
fasteí seívice, moíe accuíate diagnosis, and
data analytics foí identifying tíends oí any
genetic infoímation that would expose someone to
a specific disease. We exist in an eía wheíe
saving even a couple of minutes can save lives
and in these times, aítificial intelligence and
machine leaíning can be tíansfoímative, not only
foí healthcaíe but foí eveíy single patient. We
can help you to design the íight solution foí
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