To provide emergency treatment, an early detection of the disease is much important. Hence, application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical data analysis for disease prediction is need of the hour, said AIIMS Bhubaneswar Executive Director Prof Ashutosh Biswas.
Dr Biswas, after a meeting with Prof Prasan Kumar Sahoo, a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, and Director of Artificial Intelligence, at the AIIMS has decided to join hands with the university for research and training programmes on AI and its use in the field of diagnosis, therapeutics and management of patient care.
A huge volume of images and clinical data are generated when a cancer or brain stroke patient is admitted to the emergency department of a hospital. The collected images are highly unstructured and stored in NDPI or DICOM format. Deep learning is part of AI that mimics the workings of the human brain in analysing different formats of image data for use in classifying, localising, detecting and segmenting the medical images, said Prof Sahoo.
AI is useful to analyse the ischemic stroke, intracranial artery stenosis, colorectal cancer and lungs cancer patient’s image data for automatic prediction of the diseases, informed Prof Sahoo.