Meet my new co-pilot in the doctor's office: Artificial Intelligence

AI will clearly be of help in a wide range of areas in medicine.

AI has the advantage of searching massive data bases for comparison purposes, allowing it to bring this to bear in detecting differences that signals early pathology. Earlier diagnosis leads directly to earlier treatments and cures.

Dr. Miriam Bredella, a prominent professor of radiology at Harvard, told me on Doctor Radio on SiriusXM that a crucial purpose of AI in radiology is to rescreen many thousands of studies (X-rays, CT scans, MRIs) that were done for one reason and to use an AI algorithm to find something else, such as the amount of saturated fat in bone, which can correlate to other health problems, including insulin resistance, diabetes and osteoporosis.