Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Life Sciences
The promise of AI in healthcare and life sciences is profound. It has the potential to help clinicians and researchers prevent disease, speed recovery, and save lives by unlocking complex data. It can also free them from mundane tasks, so they can focus on their patients or research.
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Promoting Health for All with Artificial Intelligence
Technology can enrich the life of every person, especially when it has the potential to help prevent, treat, and cure disease. Intel is working with leaders in the ecosystem to revolutionize health and life sciences, whether it’s accelerating drug discovery to speed pharmaceutical development or improving healthcare access and affordability. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare—including computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning—plays a critical role in this goal. Combined with a strong infrastructure for data management, AI can help researchers and health systems quickly gather insights from massive amounts of data that were previously inaccessible due to data silos.
Use Cases for AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Artificial intelligence in medicine, pharmaceutical research, and other areas of healthcare can help improve patient care as well as overall population health.2 Today, deep learning and machine learning in healthcare are streamlining workloads for clinicians, informing personalized treatment plans, and enhancing patient experiences.
AI in Medical Imaging
From reducing the compute time needed to generate images from CT scans to performing real-time inference on endoscopic cameras, AI is streamlining workflows and enhancing care.
Precision Medicine
With precision medicine, clinicians use genomic analytics alongside other patient data to customize care and provide the right treatment for each individual.
Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics can help health systems understand trends, anticipate when and where care will be needed, and improve their population health strategies.
Lab Automation
Computer vision and other types of AI are enabling both speed and accuracy in lab automation.3 Patients can receive their diagnoses fast and new drugs can be tested quickly, leading to breakthroughs in pharmaceutical development.
AI-Enabled Robotics
In hospitals and care facilities, robots are assisting with surgery, streamlining supply delivery and disinfection, and helping providers give more direct attention to patients.
AI in Telemedicine
AI-enabled telemedicine can help clinicians provide timely care and improve outpatient monitoring. Examples include personalized reminders, condition checks based on monitoring data, and dynamic prompts during virtual visits.
Samsung Collaborates with Intel to Speed Nerve Detection and Improve Workflows
Samsung Medison has collaborated with Intel to speed nerve detection and improve workflows. NerveTrack uses the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit to help detect and identify nerves during ultrasounds. The real-time inference of ultrasound nerve images is helping improve accuracy for anesthesiologists when searching for hard-to-find nerves.
GE Healthcare Accelerates MRI Imaging with AI
GE Healthcare’s Artificial Intelligence Prescription (AIRx) automates some of the manual steps involved in MRI scanning. It also provides a consistent scan alignment to help physicians monitor a patient over several months. Using software optimizations, including the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, GE Healthcare reduced the inference time of AIRx from 2.85 seconds to 0.659 seconds on an Intel® Xeon® processor-based platform without the additional cost of accelerators.4
Philips Healthcare Accelerates Algorithms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Philips Healthcare uses the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and the Intel DevCloud for the Edge to speed compressed sensing workloads for their MRI scanners on Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with the custom extensions feature of the toolkit.
TGen Applies High Performance Computing to Genetic Research
The next phase of personalized medicine will rely on AI to increase the speed and efficiency of genomic analytics. The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) built a high performance computing (HPC) cluster optimized for life sciences and powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ memory.
GE Healthcare Helps Staff Triage Life-Threatening Cases
GE Healthcare embedded an AI algorithm on X-ray imaging devices to help flag critical cases and alert radiologists for immediate triage. The Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit improved algorithm performance, speeding the time to analyze an X-ray from more than three seconds to less than one second.1, 5
Akara Prototypes AI-Powered Disinfection Robot
As a proof of concept, Akara developed an autonomous virus-killing robot prototype to disinfect contaminated surfaces in hospitals using UV light. The robot is powered by an Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU to navigate around people. Akara’s goal is to help hospitals sanitize rooms and equipment, aiding in the fight against COVID-19.
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Intel® AI: In Production
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Intel® IoT RFP Ready Kits
These RFP-ready bundles of hardware, software, and support help make it possible to develop innovative solutions in healthcare and life sciences. They have been tested in the field and are designed to grow with customer needs.
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Información sobre productos y desempeño
“El potencial de la inteligencia artificial en la atención médica”, junio de 2019, Future Healthcare Journal, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616181/.
“Ventajas y limitaciones de la automatización total de laboratorio: visión general”, química clínica y medicina de laboratorio (CCLM), febrero de 2019, degruyter.com/view/periodishs/cclm/57/6/article-p802.xml.