How Artificial Intelligence May Help Doctors Save Lives

Sogaard said that these deep learning techniques have shown promise in finding disease patterns across large groups of people, but the ultimate goal is to eventually help individual patients. Sogaard believes a handful of cloud computing providers will have AI technologies that drug companies could eventually use for research and development. Federal regulations have not yet caught up to the rapid pace of innovation that could one day help predict and diagnose diseases using a combination of genomic, protein, and medical imaging data. But Sogaard is hopeful, and based on Pfizer's meetings with regulators, he believes the Federal Drug Administration is "open-minded" to AI-assisted medical treatment.