The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) software can replace doctors in the diagnosis as well as in the treatment of an illness is obviously debated: many practitioners still rebel at the idea that their art - because the medicine is not only a science, it is also an art to the extent that it involves applying knowledge to concrete cases - could be replaced by “soulless” and as such irresponsible machines.
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However, as Jean-Emmanuel Bibault, professor of oncology at Paris-Cité University, practitioner at the Pompidou hospital, but also researcher in medical AI at Inserm, writes in his fascinating book (
2041
: L' Odyssey of Medicine
, Éditions Équateurs, 2023),
“
a significant part of diagnostic procedures by imaging and anatomopathology will very soon be carried out automatically at very high throughput by machines.
These procedures will remain, at least initially, manually validated by humans.
Eventually…
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