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Artificial Intelligence in Clinical, Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine

  • 1st Edition - September 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Sultan Ayoub Meo
  • Language: English

Artificial Intelligence in Clinical, Diagnostic, and Laboratory Medicine explores how AI is transforming the landscape of modern healthcare—from diagnosis and clinical management t… Read more

Description

Artificial Intelligence in Clinical, Diagnostic, and Laboratory Medicine explores how AI is transforming the landscape of modern healthcare—from diagnosis and clinical management to medical education and research. The book highlights AI’s growing role in medical education as well, demonstrating how virtual simulations, adaptive learning, and data-driven assessments are enhancing student training and clinical readiness. Addressing both opportunities and challenges, it examines ethical, regulatory, and privacy considerations that accompany this technological shift. Readers will find balanced, evidence-based insights into how AI can advance clinical efficiency and public health while maintaining professional and ethical integrity.

Designed for physicians, medical students, educators, and policymakers, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how intelligent systems are reshaping the way clinicians think, learn, and practice. As AI now performs a wide range of cognitive tasks once limited to humans, including reasoning, problem-solving, and pattern recognition, this book helps readers understand the integration of AI into clinical workflows for more accurate diagnoses and streamlined decision-making.

Key features

  • Provides foundational and clinical insights into AI applications across medicine and education
  • Explores emerging trends in diagnostics, patient management, and robotic surgery
  • Addresses ethical, privacy, and regulatory implications of AI in healthcare delivery

Readership

Physicians, Clinicians, Medical Specialists, Medical Educators, Academic Faculty, and Medical/Health Sciences Students

Table of contents

1 Artificial intelligence in medical sciences: Historical background

2 Stethoscope to algorithm: Artificial intelligence in the advancement of clinical practice

3 Machine learning: Early disease diagnosis, prediction and prevention

4 Artificial intelligence in laboratory medicine and disease diagnosis

5 Artificial intelligence in cancer detection: From whole-body screening to breast and brain imaging

6 Role of robotic technology in surgical and healthcare settings

7 Artificial intelligence: Physicians and patients’ communication

8 Artificial intelligence: Role in advancing public health

9 Artificial intelligence and telemedicine in healthcare settings

10 Artificial intelligence: Reshaping medical education and the healthcare system

11 Artificial intelligence in advancing medical learning, training and simulation

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 8, 2026
  • Language: English

About the author

Sultan Ayoub Meo

Author

Prof. Sultan Ayoub Meo is a distinguished medical graduate with advanced postgraduate and doctoral degrees in physiology. He holds fellowships from several prestigious Royal Colleges of the United Kingdom and Ireland and earned a master’s in medical education from the University of Dundee, Scotland.

Prof. Meo has been recognized for excellence in medicine and has served as a doctoral supervisor and examiner at multiple universities in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia. He's the author of several books and over one hundred sixty scientific papers published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, covering a broad range of biomedical and clinical research topics.

Additionally, he's served as an associate editor for numerous international journals and has been invited to deliver keynote lectures and presentations at national and international conferences across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Prof. Meo is widely regarded for his contributions to clinical research, medical education, and healthcare innovation.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Consultant in Clinical Physiology, Department of Physiology (29), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

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