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MP931 Generic Biomedical And Pharmaceutical Research Skills Assignment - University of Strathclyde, UK
Essay - AI and the future of medical diagnosis
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming widely used to aid clinicians in diagnosing various diseases including skin cancer and tuberculosis. Please read the following paper carefully and answer the questions given below in your essay:
Esteva A, Kuprel B, Novoa RA, Ko J, Swetter SM, Blau HM, Thrun S. Nature. 2017 Feb 2;542(7639):115-118. doi: 10.1038/nature21056. Epub 2017 Jan 25. Erratum in: Nature. 2017 Jun 28;546(7660):686.
Your essay should contain 1,000 words and between 5-10 references.
In the first part of your essay, please describe:
- The basic principles of AI and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in clinical medicine generally, and as applied here.
- The t-SNE visualization technique used in Figure 4 of Esteva et al., 2017.
- The statistical measures of sensitivity and specificity. Why are these terms useful?
Then provide other examples of successful implementation of AI in clinics.
Finally, please critically analyse the increasing use of AI in medicine.
Include 5-10 additional references.
Reference Article - Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks by andre esteva, brett Kuprel, roberto a. Novoa, Justin Ko, Susan M. Swetter, Helen M. blau & Sebastian Thrun.