The use of artificial intelligence for medical diagnoses is a priority

Being in the practice of medicine without applying artificial intelligence (AI) is like using a car without a rearview mirror, airbags or proximity sensorsconsiders Ángel Lee Aguirre, neurosurgeon and member of the Doctor Manuel Gea González General Hospital, creator of IntelliMedIA, a platform for the dissemination of AI among health sector personnel.

The specialist estimated that although AI contributes to making quick, precise and correct decisions when making a diagnosis and deciding the treatment of multiple diseases, fear and ignorance regarding its use prevails among medical personnel.

While in developed countries it helps to make a diagnosis and decide on a treatment, in Mexico and Latin America it is not taken into account.he said in an interview with The Conference.

The doctor added that beyond an issue of personnel training, it is a priority issue since it can harm patients since he estimates that 95 percent of health personnel (nursing, nutrition personnel, physical trainers, doctors) specialists) in Mexico lack training in artificial intelligence.

In 2023, neurosurgeon Lee Aguirre together with Óscar José Abraham Padilla Solís and Daniel Omar Pérez Godínez, students at the University of Guanajuato, were immersed in the creation of AI algorithms and protocols for the field of medicine, when they realized the lack of knowledge among health services personnel in the country, which is why they decided to create IntelliMedIA, to also reverse the aversion around this tool.

For his part, Pérez Godínez said that currently a doctor spends up to 60 percent of his time filling out bureaucratic forms, letters, orders to consult a specialist, requests for x-rays or tomography scans, which It could be reduced by up to 20 percent if they used AI tools, and instead of using that time in bureaucratic ways, dedicate themselves to giving a better quality consultation and seeing more patients .

A year after its creation, IntelliMedIA has various platforms: YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram and an Internet page, from which basic concepts of artificial intelligence, the most popular tools and how they can be applied to the field of medicine are disseminated. They also give workshops to the medical staff of the Manuel Gea González hospital, to students from the University of Guanajuato and to members of the association of cardiologists of that state.

Among the AI ​​tools that can serve medicine are ChatGPT, a language model capable of understanding and generating text in a coherent and contextual manner, which in the field of medicine allows the creation of virtual assistants to provide quick and accurate responses. to frequently asked patient questions, it also helps doctors quickly access relevant clinical information and serves for continuing medical education.

There is also Perplexity which is a metric used to evaluate language models for medical applications, such as interpreting scientific reports or literature.

Other AI tools that have applications in medicine are Gamma, Aithor, and Explain Paper (ExplainPapet).

From IntelliMedIA, in addition to training around these tools, some artificial intelligence algorithms and protocols have also been developed for use in medicine, such as a system for identifying heart attacks, an x-ray algorithm that allows identifying the bone age of a child and a chatbot to identify heart attack symptoms.

For Dr. Lee Aguirre, the importance of this topic is such that the specialized magazine Nature He has published multiple articles that medical students need training in AI and machine learning. Even the United Nations Organization has taken action on the matter by raising the importance of this in higher education.

It is a priority to resolve the education gap in the health sector, to prevent patients from being harmedconcluded the specialist.