ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE
IN MEDICINE

DR. RIANTO, M.ENG.

UNIVERSITAS TEKNOLOGI
YOGYAKARTA
BEGINNINGS

 Initial application: automated patient questionnaire (Slack: ‘55) 1965

 Patient centered computing
 Cybermedicine

 Center for Clinical Computing

 Dr. Slack maintained of Eliza that soliloquy, (with or without a computer) can
be a valuable tool of mental health. He wrote: "Contrary to the common notion
that soliloquy is a manifestation of mental illness, we believe that it is normal
behavior---behavior that serves to help maintain emotional equilibrium."
WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?

 Intelligence
 “the capacity to learn and solve problems” (Websters dictionary)
 in particular,
 the ability to solve novel problems
 the ability to act rationally
 the ability to act like humans

 Artificial Intelligence
 build and understand intelligent entities or agents
 2 main approaches: “engineering” versus “cognitive modeling”
WHAT’S INVOLVED IN INTELLIGENCE?
 Ability to interact with the real world
 to perceive, understand, and act
 e.g., speech recognition and understanding and synthesis
 e.g., image understanding
 e.g., ability to take actions, have an effect

 Reasoning and Planning

 modeling the external world, given input
 solving new problems, planning, and making decisions
 ability to deal with unexpected problems, uncertainties

 Learning and Adaptation

 we are continuously learning and adapting
 our internal models are always being “updated”
 e.g., a baby learning to categorize and recognize animals
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE (AIM)

Motivation
 ‘Doctors in a box’ to diagnose diseases.

 Community of computer scientists and healthcare professionals set a research

program - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) with the aim of revolutionize
medicine.
APPLICATIONS OF AIM

Knowledge based systems

Examples: Generating alerts and reminders -warn changes in
a patient's condition (in less critical cases, through a email)
Diagnostic and educational systems
 Most research systems were developed to assist clinicians in the
process of diagnosis