Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used To Diagnose Disease And Design New Drugs

The healthcare industry has always been a leader when it comes to innovation. The constant mutating of diseases and viruses make for a difficult industry to stay ahead of the curve, but with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, it continues to advance with creating new treatments and helping people live longer and healthier lives. A study released this week by The Lancet Digital Health examined all the data between 2012 and 2019 of testing that has been involved with artificial intelligence and deep learning in the discovery of disease diagnosis through medical imaging. The study found that AI has become more accurate in the past years of identifying disease diagnosis in these images and has become a more viable source of diagnostic information. According to Lancet Digital, out of 14 studies conducted, the systems were able to correctly identify disease 87% of the time while healthcare professionals were correct 86% of the time.