ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI),

MACHINE LEARNING AND

HEALTHCARE
UDAY PITAMBARE
AGENDA

• What is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ?

• Research in Healthcare in the western world
• Why and How to get involved ?
• Our project & Resource requirements
• Questions
WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ?

• Perhaps the single largest technology revolution of our life time

• Machines that can perform tasks that are characteristic of Human Intelligence*

• Emulate human capabilities of perception, understanding and action

*John McCarthy
MACHINE LEARNING & DEEP LEARNING

• “the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed*”

• Ability to learn from experience and keep adapting over time
• Deep Learning : subfield of Machine Learning

*Arthur Samuel
AI IN HEALTHCARE – CURRENT EFFORTS

• Google
• Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs – on par with
Ophthalmologists
• Detecting Cancer Metastases on Gigapixel Pathology Images
• Predict In-hospital mortality, readmission, length of stay
• Stanford
• Improving Palliative care
• CheXnet : Radiologist-level pneumonia detection from chest X-rays
PUBLICATIONS
NITI AAYOG
WHY ?

• Social good
• Doctor + AI > Doctor
• Publish research at internationally reputed peer reviewed venues
• Become early adopters of the technology
• Efficient Triaging and second opinion
• Less Menial work and more time to focus on critical cases
• Lead and not ”wait” for the technology to arrive from the west
EXAMPLE PROJECT

Data + Annotations AI algorithm development Intelligent assistant systems

OUR PROJECT

• Exploring use of Artificial Intelligence(AI) to interpret Chest X-rays and CT scans

for presence of Tuberculosis
• Participating Institutions :
Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow (Lead Site)
King George’s Medical University, Lucknow
Dr.Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
Team : Chest Physicians, Radiologists, AI Engineers, Support staff
Duration of Study : 10-12 months
WORKFLOW

Dept of Pulmonary Med Radiology Dept.

Dept of Pulmonary Med

Central data collection computer