Introducing AI in Healthcare

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The following selection of stories give an overview of how machine learning works and includes some perspectives of the high level challenges for AI in health and social care.

To access the first few resources on the jamanetwork you will need to log in via Shibboleth with “University of Manchester Library” as the institution:

This is a really great video (approx 10 minutes long) explaining how Convoluted Neural Networks (CNNs) work:

Machine Learning

The article below explores the importance of collaboration in realising the benefits from AI in healthcare — with the partnership of human and machine being essential.

Fostering Collaboration Between Clinicians and Computers

Take a look at this article on humanising AI:

Humanizing Artificial Intelligence

Finally, ready this short article from the PWC site which covers 8 areas where AI is already making an impact on health and social care, these are:

1. Keeping well
2. Early detection
3. Diagnosis
4. Decision making
5. Treatment
6. End of life care
7. Research
8. Training

No longer science fiction, AI and robotics are transforming healthcare