From maintaining electronic medical records to controlling robots in medical science, AI is helping medical professionals now even in diagnosing diseases. A study research attempt was made to overcome the limitations offered by the conventional computer-aided diagnosis. Regina Barzilay, a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a researcher who is working on developing computers to learn and understand human speech to help doctors in diagnosing major human diseases like cancer, especially breast cancer.
Barzilay along with her group collaborated with Massachusetts General Hospital to apply their expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve the diagnosis and treatment procedure of cancer. The questions which are circling around the minds of researchers are whether computers can find the signs of breast cancer in mammograms earlier than humans are capable of. The other question that they are asking is that whether this process of machine learning can help doctors to recollect all the information regarding a patient’s medical history so that the medical professionals can provide personalized medical treatment to each of their patients or not. A proper medical treatment is only possible when the doctors are taking proper medical decisions. For the MIT professor, computer’s ability to scour images was an earlier detection potential that the machines have developed and currently she has been getting mammograms for more than two years until she was diagnosed recently. Researchers are now expecting computer applications to diagnose disease faster than human medical practitioners can do.
Barzilay commented that when she was diagnosed earlier, there was no sign of tumor on the previous mammograms, but she was not sure that whether so many complex images are referring a wrong development in the diagnosis or not.
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