TEHRAN, Feb 12 - An artificial intelligence (AI) program developed in China that combs through test results, health records and even handwritten notes diagnosed childhood diseases as accurately as doctors, researchers said Monday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - From the flu and asthma to life-threatening pneumonia and meningitis, the system consistently matched or out-performed primary care paediatricians, they reported in Nature Medicine.
Dozens of studies in recent months have detailed how AI is revolutionising the detection of diseases including cancers, genetic disorders and Alzheimer's.
To train the proof-of-concept system, Zhang and a team of 70 scientists injected more than 100 million data points from 1.3 million pediatrics patient visits at a major referral centre in Guangzhou, China.
The AI programme diagnosed respiratory infections and sinusitis -- a common sinus infection -- with 95 percent accuracy.
Experts not involved in the research said the study is further proof of AI's expanding role in medicine.
AI-based tools for diagnosis abound, especially for interpreting machine-generated images such as MRI and CAT scans.
A method unveiled last month in the United States to detect lesions that can lead to cervical cancer found pre-cancerous cells with 91 percent accuracy, compared to 69 percent for physical exams performed by doctors and 71 percent for conventional lab tests.
Likewise, a cellphone app based on AI technology out-performed experienced dermatologists in distinguishing potentially cancerous skin lesions from benign ones, according to a study in the Annals of Oncology.
Source: AFP
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