The applications for AI (artificial intelligence) are endless, impacting nearly every vertical market. Case in point: medical.
As one example, University of Florida medical student Taylor Edwards is one of 45 students who have participated in the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine track of the Research and Discovery Pathways Program in the last three years. The pathway enables UF medical students to conduct AI-related research projects. Edwards is using data from patients and brain scans taken before and during surgery.
Here is how this can help:
- Determine how much a person’s brain shifts during deep brain stimulation surgery with predictive algorithms.
- Organize patients into risk categories.
- Predict how much air gets past the brain’s protective outer layer that is punctured during surgery.
Of course, this is simply one example. Another project explores how students nationwide are using AI tools such as ChatGPT to enhance their medical education. We are seeing AI for good at its best. This is truly the beginning of leveraging students and AI for research side-by-side. It is enhancing and not replacing education. It is certainly a trend to keep an eye on.