The AI healthcare revolution
Artificial intelligence that can faultlessly read medical scans and ensure nothing gets missed. That is the ambitious goal of UvA university professor Ivana I¨gum. I¨gum is an expert in the field of development of AI methods for analysing medical images. Her focus is largely on images relating to cardiovascular disease, i.e., the heart and the arteries, but she also works on, for example, the brain, especially in prematurely born children. Medical practice requires more and more interpretation of digital images. The use of AI to read those images has long been predicted but has proved trickier than many imagined to bring into actual clinical practice. Currently, AI is still mostly used for measuring standard markers in images - for example, the volume or shape of a lesion.
