COMPUTER COULD ACT AS DOCTOR’S ASSISTANT
Computers could be enlisted to appreciate and allot healing advice, potentially behaving as assistants for harried doctors.
U.S. researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine are regulating a database of 200,000 questions granted by AskTheDoctor.com, a website that provides free healing advice, along with 9,000 healing questions collected from Stanford University and the University of Minnesota.
The NIH has also contacted IBM to plead the probability of regulating the super computer Watson (of Jeopardy fame) to exam the questions.
The thought is to establish either computers can appreciate the tinge and definition of questions phrased by online patients, pronounced Dr. Milton Corn, NIH emissary director.
“We are regulating synthetic comprehension techniques to try the intensity of computers to assimilate and reply to questions asked by consumers about their health,” he said. “The element supposing by AskTheDoctor.com is quite profitable to us in our computational investigate since the studious questions are settled in the expect denunciation as typed by users.”
The subsequent step in the investigate will be formulating answers to the questions. More than 10,000 of the 200,000 questions supposing by AskTheDoctor.com have already been answered by a group of physicians, pronounced Dr. Suneel Sharman, AskTheDoctor.com co-founder.
“Imagine the volume of time physicians could save if they could ask a computer partner a question and receive an present and correct response,” he said.
“Currently, physicians outlay a good understanding of time acid in healing books and online whilst saying a patient, to assistance them with their diagnosis. An smart computer that understands the denunciation of patients and physicians would be a profitable item to any doctor.”
Computers could be enlisted to appreciate and allot healing advice, potentially behaving as assistants for harried doctors.
U.S. researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine are regulating a database of 200,000 questions granted by AskTheDoctor.com, a website that provides free healing advice, along with 9,000 healing questions collected from Stanford University and the University of Minnesota.
The NIH has also contacted IBM to plead the probability of regulating the super computer Watson (of Jeopardy fame) to exam the questions.
The thought is to establish either computers can appreciate the tinge and definition of questions phrased by online patients, pronounced Dr. Milton Corn, NIH emissary director.
“We are regulating synthetic comprehension techniques to try the intensity of computers to assimilate and reply to questions asked by consumers about their health,” he said. “The element supposing by AskTheDoctor.com is quite profitable to us in our computational investigate since the studious questions are settled in the expect denunciation as typed by users.”
The subsequent step in the investigate will be formulating answers to the questions. More than 10,000 of the 200,000 questions supposing by AskTheDoctor.com have already been answered by a group of physicians, pronounced Dr. Suneel Sharman, AskTheDoctor.com co-founder.
“Imagine the volume of time physicians could save if they could ask a computer partner a question and receive an present and correct response,” he said.
“Currently, physicians outlay a good understanding of time acid in healing books and online whilst saying a patient, to assistance them with their diagnosis. An smart computer that understands the denunciation of patients and physicians would be a profitable item to any doctor.”