AI in Medicine: Ted Talk by Pratik Shah

Quick Summary;

I recently watched a TED Talk about how artificial intelligence can revolutionize the medical field. Pratik Shah, who served as a principal investigator at the MIT Media Lab, aimed to develop a method for diagnosing infectious diseases and cancers more quickly and cost-effectively. He explained that in a typical medical setting, patients endure a lengthy process of scanning, interpreting the results, and receiving a diagnosis that can sometimes be incorrect. Shah’s team created a new method that streamlines this process by allowing a single image to provide a fast and accurate diagnosis.

Their algorithm initially trained by 50 images can now identify diseases or cancers from a photo taken with a doctor’s phone. This is only a quick summary, but I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this TED Talk and highly recommend taking the time to watch it.