Special Feature 1 – Medical Care in the Age of AI Transforming the medical world —— Could AI become a physician’s assistant?

The field of medical care has already seen several AI booms. In what can only be described as a breakthrough, many hospitals have now started to use image recognition technology based on AI-powered deep learning. If the technology evolves further, it could prove highly effective in identifying pathological changes that humans tend to overlook and hard-to-diagnose diseases. As such, there are hopes that it could become a reliable assistant for physicians. On the other hand, reliance on learned content means there is a risk that bias in the training data will be reflected in the results. If such issues can be overcome, it might become possible to deliver a completely different style of medical care.