Will AI Replace Or Supplement Human Doctors?

For several years, artificial intelligence (AI) has played an increasingly important role in medicine for risk stratification, imaging and diagnosis, genomics, precision medicine, and drug discovery. 

Although the introduction of AI in surgery is more recent, it is gradually changing the surgery practice with strong, advanced technological developments in imaging and navigation. Early techniques focused on feature detection and computer-assisted intervention for both pre-operative planning and intra-operative guidance. 


  
Over the years, many supervised algorithms and deep learning methods have been developed to replace ad hoc hand-crafted methods in healthcare and learn automatically from the vast amount of medical data that can significantly impact the management of both acute and chronic diseases prolonging life and continuously extending the boundary of survival.