Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Helpful Tool or Hazard: How Should Physicians Treat AI Chatbots Providing Medical Advice?
Alex Steele ’28 As long as the internet has been publicly accessible, individuals have used it to search for medical information. By 2002, when more than half of Americans had internet access, 80% of U.S. adults online were estimated to have searched for health-related information on the web (McMullan, 2006). Throughout the 2000s and 2010s,…
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AI Driven Diagnostics in Rural Medicine
Colin Vickrey ’27 Each year, nearly half the world’s population lives without access to essential health services. In rural regions, diagnostic delays can turn treatable disease into deadly ones. According to a 2022 Lancet Digital Health report, more than 3 billion people live in areas without adequate diagnostic imaging or laboratory infrastructure. In many of…
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Intraoperative Machine Learning Implementation in Neurosurgery
Alex Steele ’28 As machine-learning based technologies begin to be incorporated into the delivery of medical care, adoption has varied across specialties. Some areas lend themselves well to being aided by computer-driven algorithms, while others have less aspects that can be easily addressed or readily augmented with artificial intelligence programs. Among the various medical fields,…