Five Application Scenarios and Typical Cases of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Industry

In recent years, the development of intelligent medicine at home and abroad has been increasing. It was suggested that "although security and intelligence are the hottest, AI may take the lead in the medical field." On the one hand, breakthroughs in key technologies such as image recognition, in-depth learning and neural network have brought a new round of development of artificial intelligence technology. It has greatly promoted the deep integration of medical industry and artificial intelligence characterized by data-intensive, knowledge-intensive and mental labor-intensive.

On the other hand, with the social progress and the awakening of people's health consciousness, the problem of population aging is aggravating, and people's demand for improving medical technology, prolonging human life and enhancing health is also more urgent. However, in practice, there are some problems, such as uneven distribution of medical resources, long drug development cycle, high cost, and high training cost of medical staff. The actual demand for medical progress has greatly stimulated the rise of the wave of transformation and upgrading of the medical industry promoted by artificial intelligence technology.

Main Application Scenarios of Intelligent Medicine

From the practice of global start-up companies, the specific applications of intelligent medicine include insight and risk management, medical research, medical imaging and diagnosis, lifestyle management and supervision, mental health, nursing, emergency room and hospital management, drug discovery, virtual assistant, wearable equipment and others. In summary, the current application of AI technology in medical field mainly focuses on the following five areas:

(1) Medical robots

Robot technology is not uncommon in the medical field, such as intelligent prosthesis, exoskeleton and auxiliary equipment technology to repair damaged human body, medical care robots to assist the work of medical staff, and so on. At present, there are two main types of medical robots in practice:

First, wearable robots that can read human nerve signals have become "intelligent exoskeletons".

Second, robots capable of performing surgery or medical care functions are typically represented by the Da Vinci surgical system developed by IBM.

(2) Intelligent drug research and development

Intelligent drug research and development refers to the application of in-depth learning technology in artificial intelligence to drug research, and the rapid and accurate mining and screening of suitable compounds or organisms through large data analysis and other technical means, so as to shorten the cycle of new drug research and development, reduce the cost of new drug research and development, and improve the success rate of new drug research and development.

Artificial intelligence can predict drug activity, safety and side effects through computer simulation. With the help of in-depth learning, artificial intelligence has made new breakthroughs in many fields, such as cardiovascular drugs, anti-cancer drugs and common infectious diseases treatment drugs. Intelligent drug development also plays an important role in the fight against Ebola virus.

(3) Intelligent diagnosis and treatment

Intelligent diagnosis and treatment is to use artificial intelligence technology in assistant diagnosis and treatment, let the computer "learn" the medical knowledge of the expert doctor, simulate the doctor's thinking and diagnostic reasoning, so as to give a reliable diagnosis and treatment program. Intelligent diagnosis and treatment scenario is the most important and core application scenario of artificial intelligence in medical field.

(4) Intelligent Image Recognition

Intelligent medical imaging is the application of artificial intelligence technology in the diagnosis of medical images. The application of artificial intelligence in medical image is mainly divided into two parts: one is image recognition, which is used in perception link. Its main purpose is to analyze the image and obtain some meaningful information; the other is deep learning, which is used in learning and analysis link. Through a large number of image data and diagnostic data, the neuron network is continuously trained to master diagnosis. Ability.

(5) Intelligent health management

Intelligent health management is the application of artificial intelligence technology to specific scenarios of health management. At present, it mainly focuses on risk identification, virtual nurses, mental health, online consultation, health intervention and health management based on precision medicine.

Risk identification: By obtaining information and using artificial intelligence technology to analyze, identify the risk of disease occurrence and provide measures to reduce the risk.

Virtual nurses: collect information about patients'eating habits, exercise cycles, medication habits and other personal habits, use artificial intelligence technology to analyze data and assess the overall state of patients, to help plan daily life.

Mental health: The use of artificial intelligence technology from language, expression, voice and other data for emotional recognition.

Mobile medicine: Provide telemedicine service with artificial intelligence technology.

Health intervention: User's physical data were analyzed by AI, and health management plan was customized.

Typical Application Cases of Intelligent Medical Industry

(1) Medical robots

1. Intelligent Exoskeleton

ExoAtlet of Russia produces two "intelligent exoskeleton" products: ExoAtlet I and ExoAtletPro. The former applies to families, while the latter applies to hospitals. ExoAtlet I is suitable for patients with lower body paralysis. As long as the upper limb function is basically complete, it can help patients complete basic walking, climbing stairs and some special training movements. On the basis of ExoAtlet I, ExoAtlet Pro includes more functions, such as pulse measurement, electrical stimulation, and setting the established walking pattern.

Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has officially listed "Robot Garment" and "Medical Mixed Limbs" as medical devices for sale in Japan, mainly for improving the walking function of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular atrophy and other diseases.

2. Surgical Robot

The most representative surgical robot in the world is the Da Vinci surgical system. "Leonardo Da Vinci's surgical system is divided into two parts: the operating table in the operating room and the terminal that the doctor can operate remotely. The operating table is a machine with three robotic arms.

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