Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly-emerging area of medical research.
In the medical field, AI can be used to analyse all available biomedical data and information in a systematic search for treatments.
Data-driven healthcare is not a new concept, but current world events have placed a spotlight on the need for rapid, technology-driven solutions, to the world’s most pressing health issues.
AI is considered one of the greatest opportunities to achieve breakthroughs in areas of medicine that have (so far) eluded scientists.
At the same time, AI has the potential to save time and money, in the search for potential treatments for emerging diseases. Indeed, scientists have already harnessed machine learning to explore new approaches to treating progressive kidney and lung diseases, as well as hard-to-treat cancers like glioblastoma.
While such systems will never be able to replace scientists and clinicians, machine learning models and algorithms can identify potential solutions, more efficiently than humans.
Read about the ever-expanding investment in AI research at: https://europeansting.com/2020/08/05/how-ai-can-accelerate-the-search-for-treatments-for-emerging-and-intractable-diseases/.