Artificial Intelligence

Chapter 1

Algorithmic Medicine

Sandeep Reddy

Deakin University

CONTENTS

1.1     Introduction

1.2     AI in Medicine – A History

1.3     AI Types and Applications

1.3.1     Computer Vision

1.3.2     Natural Language Processing

1.3.3     Robotics

1.4     Challenges and Solutions

1.5     The Future

References

1.1     Introduction

For long health services have faced several challenges, chief among them being rising expenditure and workforce shortages without clear solutions in sight (Topol, 2019). At the same time, there has been an unprecedented generation of medical data ranging from sources such as electronic health records, medical imaging and laboratory units (Sidey-Gibbons & Sidey-Gibbons, 2019). Clinicians have for long relied on computers ...