AI Use cases
To build awareness on the possibilities and benefits the development and deployment of AI in healthcare offers COCIR is proud to share and centralize AI use cases as of 2020 that have been sourced from our membership.
This list of use cases will be periodically updated and more will be published on regular basis to reflect the latest innovations and developments. So far 16 AI use cases have been collected in total and can be consulted here below.
December 2020
11. Distributed learning for evidence-based medicine
Source: Varian
Distributed learning infrastructure that promotes global evidence-based medicine while prioritising patient privacy as well as ethical and political concerns around sharing access to data. Read more
Radiotherapy | Radiology | Research
Type: N/A | Category: Other
12. AI in clinical decision making
Source: IBM Watson Health
The study concerned a prospective blinded study of 1000 cases analysing the role of AI. Watson for Oncology was tested against decision making of a Multidisciplinary Tumor Board. Read more
Oncology
Type: Decision support | Category: Treatment
13. AI applied to magnetic resonance
Source: GE Healthcare
AIR Recon DL is a deep learning-based convolutional neural network designed to intelligently reconstruct a final MR image with high SNR and improved image sharpness. Read more
Radiology | Medical imaging | Diagnostics | Magnetic resonance
Type: Autonomous decision making | Category: Detection - Diagnosis
14. AI in contouring for radiotherapy planning
Source: Varian
Radiotherapy treatment planning system connected to (cloud based) AI segmentation service. Read more
Radiotherapy
Type: Decision support | Category: Other
15. AI in clinical insights for hematological malignancies
Source: IBM Watson Health
Watson for Genomics’ variant interpretation was tested against manually curated expert opinions. It identified clinically actionable insights missed by manual interpretation. Read more
Hematology
Type: Decision support | Category: Diagnosis - Treatment
16. Machine learning to better predict patient no shows
Source: GE Healthcare
There is a wide range of factors contributing to patients missing appointments – creating equipment underutilisation, idle staff, and delayed diagnosis. Smart Scheduling is designed to help manage these challenges. Read more
Radiology | Medical imaging | Diagnostics
Type: Decision support | Category: Other
June 2020
07. AI in chest imaging (Cardiovascular)
Source: Siemens Healthineers
AI-powered radiological software that uses image recognition capabilities to provide assistance in the form of qualitative and quantitative data (quantification of the total calcium volume in the coronary arteries). Read more
Cardiology | Radiology | Medical imaging
Type: Decision support | Category: Detection
08. AI in adaptive radiotherapy
Source: Varian
AI segmentation module integrated in adaptive radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery system. Read more
Radiotherapy
Category: other
09. AI in mammographic breast density
Source: Hologic
AI-powered radiological software using the structured learning capacity of modern AI to produce pattern recognition based radiological breast density scores. Read more
Mammography | Breast cancer screening | Medical imaging
Type: Decision support | Category: Detection
10. AI based radiotherapy treatment planning solution
Source: Varian
RapidPlan is a machine learning application that predicts the Dose Volume Histogram of a radiotherapy treatment plan based on information from a historical collection of treatment plans. Read more
Radiotherapy
Type: Decision support | Category: Treatment
January 2020
01. AI in chest imaging (Pulmonary)
Source: Siemens Healthineers
AI-powered radiological software using image recognition capabilities to assist in generating qualitative and quantitative data in assessing lung disease. Read more
Radiology | Emergency medicine | General practice | Medical imaging
Type: Decision support | Category: Detection
02. AI for pneumothorax detection and improved workflow productivity
Source: GE Healthcare
The Critical Care Suite (CCS) and Quality Care Suite (QCS) are optional computer-aided triage and notification software from GE Healthcare. Read more
Radiology | Trauma & ER | Surgery
Type: Decision support | Category: Prevention - Detection
03. AI in patient positioning for computed tomography
Source: Siemens Healthineers
AI-powered radiological software that uses deep learning methods to detect anatomical landmarks in order to optimise patient positioning in the isocenter before applying radiation dose. Read more
Radiology | Medical imaging | Workflow optimisation | Radiation dose reduction
Type: Decision support | Category: Detection
04. AI women’s health ultrasound
Source: GE Healthcare
Following international guidelines published by ISUOG, SonoCNS identifies four standardised planes within a given volume of the foetal head. Read more
Obstetric ultrasound
Type: Decision support | Category: Detection
05. Snakebite and snake identification via mobile devices
Source: WHO-ITU F-AI4H
This is a mobile application that will identify snkes from a smartphone photo and identify the appropriate antivenom required. Read more
Emergency care
Type: Decision support | Category: Treatment
06. Teledermatological screening solution via mobile devices
Source: WHO-ITU FG-AI4H
The software would classif images taken by smarthpone and diagnose skin lesions. Read more
Dermatology
Type: Decision support | Category: Diagnosis
