AI in Clinical Practice
A Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Digital Medicine
- 1st Edition - November 22, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Giampaolo Collecchia, Riccardo De Gobbi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 5 4 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 5 5 - 6
AI in Clinical Practice: A Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Digital Medicine explains how artificial intelligence is applied to medicine, illustrating not only its enormous… Read more
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AI in Clinical Practice: A Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Digital Medicine explains how artificial intelligence is applied to medicine, illustrating not only its enormous potential but also ancillary issues and the limits and risks inherent in its use on a large scale. The book focuses on the intersection between medicine and AI and its implications on the impact of human health care delivery. Topics discussed include wearable devices, health data, Internet of Things, virtual reality, robotic assistance system, and digital intelligence in the health sector. Additionally, sections discuss diagnostics and decision-making systems and machine/deep learning in clinical setting.
This is a valuable resource for clinicians, researchers, students and members of the biomedical and medical fields who want to learn more about the use of AI to improve patient care.
- Covers emerging topics related to the intersection of AI and clinical practice
- Discusses the most relevant concepts and developments on AI in a didactic way for clinical applicability
- Presents content tailored to a non-specialized readership, focusing on the main points that clinicians and health workers must know to be updated on the most recent developments of AI
Graduate students and researchers in medical informatic, clinicians, healthcare workers. Graduate students and researchers in computer science, policy makers
Section 1: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: "WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT "
1. Glossary
2. What is meant by AI: knowing it in order to use it in the best way
3. How AI works: machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, black boxes
4. The limits of the algorithms, or the data is (not) "given"
Section 2: THE WORLD OF SENSORS
5. The datanami (tsunami of data): or when the data is perhaps too much
6. Wearable devices and the Internet of Things
7. The sentry watch
Section 3: DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE AND HEALTH
8. Diagnostics and decision-making systems: Applications in radiology, oncology, pathology, dermatology, ophthalmology, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, genetics, at the health system level
9. Applications in the psychological-psychiatric field
10. From personalized medicine to precision medicine
11. The search for new drugs and digital therapies
12. Virtual reality: great therapeutic potential and possible risks
13. Chance or Chaos14. The robotic assistance system
15. Digital medications/Therapy
16. Will "Amplifying technology" really expand our knowledge?
17. Diagnosis by images18. Machine Learning and Deep Learning
19. At the end of the journey…final reflections
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 22, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Giampaolo Collecchia
Dr. Giampaolo Collecchia is General Practitioner, Internal Medicine Specialist. He is member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the North West area of the Tuscany Region and member of the Center for Studies and Research in General Medicine (CSeRMEG). He carries out teaching activities at the University of Florence. He is teacher and tutor at the Specific Training Course in General Medicine of the Tuscany Region. Dr. Collecchia is author/co-author of articles and books on general medicine, cardiology and digital medicine.
Affiliations and expertise
Primary Care Physician, Specialist in Internal Medicine, Massa, ItalyRG
Riccardo De Gobbi
Dr. Riccardo De Gobbi previously worked as a professor and tutor at the school of specialization in Community Medicine at the University of Padua. From 2010 to 2014 he held the position of coordinator of seminar teaching (CD) in Padua of the Regional School of Specific Training in General Medicine. Currently, he works as private physician at Padua, Italy. He was co-author of some books and dozens of articles on the intersection of clinical practice and technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Primary Care Physician, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Allergology, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Padua, ItalyRead AI in Clinical Practice on ScienceDirect