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Examples of AI in healthcare

Elena Sügis introducing some examples of AI being used in healthcare. Focus on diagnostics, clinical decision making, and patient care.

Artificial intelligence is already present in many aspects of healthcare. Among others, it supports clinicians with diagnostics and clinical decision making, and it is used in drug development. With that, faster and better care can be provided.

In this video, lead educator Elena Sügis, Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the Institute of Computer Science of the University of Tartu, Estonia, shows some examples of artificial intelligence already being used in healthcare. These examples include computer-aided detection and diagnosis systems, automatic text analysis, and robot-assisted surgery.

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