Overview of artificial intelligence in medicine

By Amisha, Paras Malik, Monika Pathania, V. Rathaur. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019

855 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the term used to describe the use of computers and technology to simulate intelligent behavior and critical thinking comparable to a human being. John McCarthy first described the term AI in 1956 as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. Objective: This descriptive article gives a broad overview of AI in medicine, dealing with the terms and concepts as well as the current and future applications of AI. It aims to develop knowledge and familiarity of AI among primary care physicians. Materials and Methods: PubMed and Google searches were performed using the key words 'artificial intelligence'. Further references were obtained by cross-referencing the key articles. Results: Recent advances in AI technology and its current applications in the field of medicine have been discussed in detail. Conclusions: AI promises to change the practice of medicine in hitherto unknown ways, but many of its practical applications are still in their infancy and need to be explored and developed better. Medical professionals also need to understand and acclimatize themselves with these advances for better healthcare delivery to the masses.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Health Information Management

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1. Avishek Choudhury
2. Onur Asan
3. Rodney Hull
4. F. Francies
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In Health Informatics

1. Avishek Choudhury
2. Onur Asan

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• Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (2021, background): “Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term applied to a machine or software and refers to its capability of simulating intelligent human behavior, instantaneous calculations, problem-solving, and evaluation of new data based on previously assessed data (1).”