Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Artificial Intelligence: A Vector for Positive Change in Medicine

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence

  • 1023 Accesses

Abstract

Our world has been changing rapidly. Today, telepresence enables students to meet with tutors and doctors to treat patients thousands of miles away. Robots help with packing on factory floors.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 29.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 37.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 37.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    http://news.mit.edu/2016/ingestible-origami-robot-0512.

  2. 2.

    https://hms.harvard.edu/news/better-together.

  3. 3.

    http://www.wired.co.uk/article/mustafa-suleyman-deepmind-google-ai.

  4. 4.

    http://news.mit.edu/2017/putting-data-in-the-hands-of-doctors-regina-barzilay-0216.

  5. 5.

    http://www.bbc.com/fature/story/20170914-spotting-cancer-stopping-shootings-how-ai-protects-us.

  6. 6.

    https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/16/advances-in-ai-and-ml-are-reshaping-healthcare/.

  7. 7.

    https://www.usnews.coWnews/technology/articles/2017-08-10/how-ai-robots-hunt-new-drugs-for-crippling-nerve-disease.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Daniela Rus

Authors
  1. Daniela Rus
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Daniela Rus .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

    Bernard Nordlinger

  2. Institut Henri Poincaré, Université de Lyon, Paris, France

    Cédric Villani

  3. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniela Rus

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Rus, D. (2020). Artificial Intelligence: A Vector for Positive Change in Medicine. In: Nordlinger, B., Villani, C., Rus, D. (eds) Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32161-1_3

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation