Artificial intelligence in medical image processing: progress and prospect

Abstract

At present, our world has entered an aging society, with more and more people suffering from various diseases, but the limited medical resources are difficult to meet the medical needs of today's society. Artificial intelligence has been used in medical care in the early stage, including medical information consultation and electronic medical records, and in the later stage, it is applied into intelligent diagnosis of skin cancer and pulmonary nodule based on medical imaging and pathological data. Such researches and products concerning artificial intelligence have developed rapidly, and can save medical resources and reduce medical burden. This paper analyzes the research and application of artificial intelligence in medical image processing in recent years, in the aspects of intelligent segmentation, intelligent diagnosis and intelligent prognostic assessment. Moreover, this article discusses the research progress and prospects of medical artificial intelligence, and provides references for future research in order to accelerate the digitization of medical resources, save medical costs, and improve medical efficiency.

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• medical image segmentation
• intelligent diagnosis
• intelligent prognostic assessment