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. 2020 Sep-Oct;65(5):365-370.
doi: 10.4103/ijd.IJD_421_20.

Artificial Intelligence: How is It Changing Medical Sciences and Its Future?

Kanadpriya Basu  1 , Ritwik Sinha  2 , Aihui Ong  3 , Treena Basu  4
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Artificial Intelligence: How is It Changing Medical Sciences and Its Future?

Kanadpriya Basu et al. Indian J Dermatol. 2020 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Artificially intelligent computer systems are used extensively in medical sciences. Common applications include diagnosing patients, end-to-end drug discovery and development, improving communication between physician and patient, transcribing medical documents, such as prescriptions, and remotely treating patients. While computer systems often execute tasks more efficiently than humans, more recently, state-of-the-art computer algorithms have achieved accuracies which are at par with human experts in the field of medical sciences. Some speculate that it is only a matter of time before humans are completely replaced in certain roles within the medical sciences. The motivation of this article is to discuss the ways in which artificial intelligence is changing the landscape of medical science and to separate hype from reality.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; deep convolutional neural network; medical use.

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