Communications of the ACM
How Doctors Use AI to Help Diagnose Patients
Physicians say AI holds promise, but they are also wary of yielding to machines, both because the technology is still emerging and because research has shown that biases in AI can harm the care some people receive.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is enhancing physicians' diagnostic abilities to better identify patients who might be vulnerable to certain ailments.
Medical AI programs employ an algorithm or set of algorithms that can determine patients' risk of health issues based on data, typically from electronic health records.
Paul Friedman at Mayo Clinic's cardiology department said doctors use an AI tool to spot heart failure and atrial fibrillation from electrocardiograms, potentially years before they might otherwise be diagnosed.
Last year, the Cano Health physician group used AI to identify diabetic retinopathy within images from an eye camera.
Suchi Saria at health AI company Bayesian Health said doctors in Baltimore can algorithmically identify septic hospitalized patients; research found patients could be treated nearly two hours earlier on average with AI diagnosis, reducing sepsis' hospital mortality rate by 18%.
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