Introduction to AI in healthcare

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This is an introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning for healthcare workers with no technical background. 

Some resources and papers we discuss:  

A nice review of some of the key concepts:

R. Gupta, D. Srivastava, M. Sahu, S. Tiwari, R. K. Ambasta and P. Kumar, Artificial intelligence to deep learning: machine intelligence approach for drug discovery. Molecular Diversity 2021 Vol. 25 Issue 3 Pages 1315-1360

Computer outperforms interns in diagnosis of abdominal pain:

de Dombal FT, Leaper DJ, Staniland JR, McCann AP, Horrocks JC. Computer-aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. Br Med J. 1972 Apr 1;2(5804):9-13. doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.5804.9. PMID: 4552594; PMCID: PMC1789017 

Mycin expert system:

Shortliffe EH. Mycin: A Knowledge-Based Computer Program Applied to Infectious Diseases. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1977 Oct 5:66–9. PMCID: PMC2464549. 

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine by Professor Edward H. Shortliffe

Outline of the INTERNIST rules based system:

Randolph A. Miller, et al., “INTERNIST-1: An Experimental Computer-Based Diagnostic Consultant for General Internal Medicine,” New England Journal of Medicine 307 (August 19, 1982): 468-76.