Abstract
Artificial intelligence as a research area has been continuously growing for several decades. Many applications were developed in various domains. Medicine and health care have attracted more intensive attention thanks to rapid technological development that has accelerated generation of large volumes of data requiring intelligent analysis and evaluation. This article illustrates, through examples of women researchers and selected AI projects in medicine, the wide spectrum of applications developed during the last fifteen years in the Czech Republic, and in particular at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Women researchers played an important and irreplaceable role since the advent of AI research in the Czech Republic. By their example, they motivated many young female students to join the community and start their research career in the AI area. They frequently participated in research projects led by the senior women researchers. The presented overview of projects illustrates the diversity of the medical area and the potential of AI methods that can be used for solving data- and knowledge-intensive problems. We briefly touch on the AI study programs. In conclusion, we point out the future challenges in AI and its applications in medicine and health care.
Highlights
Researchers in the Czech Republic.Artificial intelligence (AI) has been with us for several decades
The sources of inefficiency in a specific solution can be identified through careful analysis of the data produced by the system during its problem-solving activity. She started to search for machine learning tools that could do the job and she became fascinated by their ability to find structure in extensive complex data sets [24,25,26]. She saw promising potential machine learning offers for data interpretation in the domain of biomedical engineering and since her team has been cooperating with numerous experts from the medical or biochemical domains, to design and implement complex software prototype (SW) solutions for medical data collection and interpretation and to study how AI and robotics can contribute to better care through the design of novel assistive technologies
When we look at the topics of our research projects during the past decades we can find several common lines, namely, large multimodal and multidimensional data, continuous data, machine learning, feature extraction, feature selection using optimization methods and semi-automated classification methods [29,30,31,32]
Summary
The research and development of AI are growing continuously as technologies generate larger volumes of data that require intelligent analysis and evaluation. Better communication channels allow speeding up the exchange and use of data, information and knowledge, and are eliminating geographical and temporal barriers All these developments increased the importance of medical informatics as a discipline that builds on the results of computer science, artificial intelligence, image processing, etc. Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations This approach has been adopted within the integrated care cycle (ICC). ICC can enhance both patient centricity and care cycle efficiency through embedded technology and through a holistic approach to integrating health data, health workflows and health systems and devices. The sections focus on the development of AI in the Czech Republic, the active role of female researchers and examples of research projects that were successfully solved in the health-care area
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