Artificial intelligence improves the diagnosis of lung disease

Artificial intelligence can significantly improve the diagnosis of lung disease, suggests a new study. Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the diagnosis of lung disease by helping doctors interpret respiratory symptoms more accurately, according to new research. An AI computer algorithm using high quality data proved more consistent and accurate in interpreting respiratory test results and suggesting diagnoses than lung specialists, revealed recent research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Paris, France. "Pulmonary function tests provide an extensive series of numerical outputs and their patterns can be hard for the human eye to perceive and recognise; however, it is easy for computers to manage large quantities of data like these and so we thought AI could be useful for pulmonologists," said Dr Marko Topalovic, a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Respiratory Diseases, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. The study included 120 pulmonologists from 16 hospitals and researchers used historical data from 1,430 patients from 33 Belgian hospitals.