Artificial intelligence can have beneficial applications for humanity. For example, it is now being used by doctors in Ireland. This is happening in Dublin, at the public Mater Hospital: the first in the country to use AI in its radiology department. To date, AI has been used for more than 25,000 patient examinations, which are thus better diagnosed.
From our correspondent in Ireland,
Since October 2022, radiologists at the Mater Hospital in north Dublin have changed their ways. They are now using artificial intelligence to highlight priority cases. Peter MacMahon, the hospital’s chief radiologist, explains how his team works: “ A patient comes in and let’s say they’ve been in a car accident. They’re usually assessed by the medical team at the entrance, who often order a CT scan.” That’s when AI, artificial intelligencejoin the game : “The AI software will evaluate all the scans and will alert us with a little beep if it thinks the result is positive for a traumatic injury, like a brain bleed or a broken neck. So it’s essentially a triage tool. It alerts us to the cases that are most likely to contain something that we should look at immediately. »
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The benefits of AI are therefore tangible. By speeding up critical diagnoses, AI can save lives. It also reduces the waiting time for patients in hospital and it is also a valuable time saving for healthcare staff. This artificial intelligence, which therefore analyzes medical imaging data, was designed by the company Aidoc. According to Mike Burns, sales director in the United Kingdom and Irelandthis AI would have an accuracy rate of over 90%: “That Whether it’s ourselves, our friends or our family, we’ve probably all been in a situation where we missed something somewhere and someone could have done better.”
The salesperson praises the interest of AI in the medical world: “So having an AI tool running in the background to provide an additional safety net for everyone can only be a good thing. So the challenge now is to try and scale this up to the rest of Ireland to provide similar benefits elsewhere.”
It has been relatively easy to train algorithms using all the images provided by radiologists, images that are already on the computer. But this modernity within radiology contrasts with the rest of the health system. In Ireland, most medical records are still on paper and not in digital form. It is therefore impossible for an AI to train without this data.
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