Alibaba Health releases AI service for diagnosis in China
12-Jul-17, South China Morning Post
Alibaba Health has unveiled its first Artificial Intelligence service for disease diagnosis, offering hope that advanced technology will alleviate the workload of mainland Chinese physicians in a nation suffering from an acute shortage of doctors.
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The AI solution, called Doctor You, can be used for medical image diagnosis of CT scans to identify inflammatory cells in human organs, which can be an early indicator of cancer.
“It will soon serve as an assistant to physicians at a number of hospitals in the country,” said Ke Yan, a vice president with Ali Health, adding that the technology could lower error rates, improve efficiency and take over half of the workload from doctors in China within the coming decade.