2024-04-05 05:00:09
In provincial general hospitals, as in private establishments, AI has already made its nest. ADOBE STOCK
DECRYPTION – It’s no longer science fiction. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already revolutionizing the practice of doctors and patient care. For the best or for the worst?
A few years ago, the arrival of AI in medicine aroused sarcasm and fantasies. And caused concern among doctors. Wasn’t she going to steal the show? For example, could it one day replace the dermatologist? The question was asked in 2017 in the famous magazine Nature. A study from Stanford University (USA) showed that an AI was capable, just as well as a specialist, of telling the difference between a mole and melanoma, this serious skin cancer. To achieve this feat, she recorded thousands of normal and pathological photographs.
Today, the same question for the radiologist because one of the areas where AI excels is medical imaging: in oncology to detect tumors, in ophthalmology to detect glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, in traumatology to identify, in the emergency room, fractures that are difficult to detect at first glance on the x-ray. “In a scanner, there are a thousand…
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