A.I.'s Biggest Impact is Medicine

Zebra of Israel developing AI to diagnose cancer

Another example of AI's impact in medicine

Artificial intelligence is showing only a small glimpse of what it can do for us.

It is working behind the scenes in a lot of industries, most notably in autonomous vehicles and in applications that need to process a lot of data.

But no other field has been more impacted by AI than medicine. On a weekly basis, there seems to be a fantastic breakthrough, new robotic surgery, or some improvement being made.

One of the latest and most impactful is from a company called Zebra, an Israeli deep learning imaging firm. Imaging algorithms are a big focus for AI technology currently, as it has the potential to solve a myriad of problems by simply looking at pictures.

Like voice recognition AI, imaging recognition AI works by feeding the AI neural network countless examples of human sensory information and asks the system to begin to make comparisons. It can be used in medical applications to pour over images of X-rays for example.

Zebra is using this to help doctors diagnose cancer. No, it's not a cure, but it can find early stages of cancer that the human eye misses, and catching cancer quickly is one of the best scenarios for increasing survival.

Since the process is machine learning automated, it can view massive amounts of visual data, thereby greatly increasing both the scale of work and the quality. What's more, the company hopes to allow its technology to reach into poor and undeveloped regions of the world by offering its service for $1 a scan. From Venture Beats