In the News

Author

Voth, Danna ; Hedberg, Sara Reese

Volume

22

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The article looks at how AI is helping researchers to create tools to help doctors make better diagnoses, gather enhanced information from medical tests, improve their surgery and examination skills, and more quickly make relevant biomedical discoveries. It also discusses how personal computers are no longer simply work tools. They now store the intermingled memories of our personal and professional lives in gigabytes of photos, emails, calendars, documents, videos, and so on. A small cadre of researchers is beginning to tap these digital stores through life annotation, enabling us to search our own PCs the way we search the Web

Keywords

Internet; artificial intelligence; health care; information retrieval; information storage; medical diagnostic computing; microcomputer applications; personal information systems; surgery; Web searching; ethical issue; intelligent healthcare; legal issue; medical diagnosis; neurophysiology; personal computing; personal digitised memories; political issue; surgery; Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Crawlers; Deformable models; Image analysis; Mathematical model; Medical diagnostic imaging; Neoplasms; Surgery; Surges; LifeBrowser; MyLifeBits; artificial intelligence; healthcare; life annotation; machine learning; pattern recognition;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2007.35

Filename

4136850