AI has the promise of radically changing healthcare : Prof. Lyle Ungar - ET HealthWorld

By Prof. Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize healthcare. The greatest effects in terms of market size, the use of AI in areas such as administrative workflow and fraud detection, will be almost invisible to healthcare consumers, but customer-facing AI will gradually become more prevalent, allowing people to use their phones to share images, blood pressure readings, and other information and receive automated advice. Such changes will be particularly important in rural regions, where access to doctors is more limited. The most impressive successes to date in the use of AI for healthcare have come in the automatic interpretation of medical images such as cat scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. The most common AI "deep learning" models simply take a set of inputs (e.g.