Artificial intelligence and medicine

If we search the database of PubMed, one of the most important search engines for scientific work in the field of health at an international level, we find that in the past five years, nearly 4000 scientific articles have been published on topics related to health, artificial intelligence and preventive diagnosis in medicine, 1434 Including between 2000 and the first five months of this year. The interest in using AI and VR related tools in health research is due to the versatility these tools offer professionals. How does artificial intelligence work in medicine? Part of the processing, analysis, and visualization of large databases and even images, which is known as big data, from which algorithms are designed that can find patterns in the analyzed data. In turn, these patterns make it possible to develop, for example, disease prevention and evaluation systems that adapt to the specific needs of each patient, but also allow monitoring of development after surgery or early diagnosis of degenerative diseases, among others.