Demystifying Medical AI and Robotics

Over the past few years, we have witnessed rapid advancement in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in areas from navigation, to self-driving cars, to predictive modelling of a person’s behaviour, and more recently this has been applied to healthcare. Because medical imaging has been in digitised formats since the 1980s, this makes it highly suitable for AI applications, and therefore radiology is one of the earliest medical disciplines to pursue AI applications. There are several use cases now in the medical literature. The most commonly known examples where AI has been utilised include chest x-ray diagnosis and mammograms for breast cancer screening...