Review Article

The Recent Progress and Applications of Digital Technologies in Healthcare: A Review

Table 1

Examples of AI applications in healthcare.

ApplicationsStudy aimsOutcomesReferences

Ultrasound imagingDevelopment of deep learning detection network for ultrasonic equipment for real-time detection of breast cancer.Method to realize the intelligence of the low-computation-power ultrasonic equipment, and real-time assistance for detection of breast lesions was developed.[12]..................

CT imagingTo perform a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of a deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) algorithm in contrast-enhanced oncologic CT of the abdomen.DLIR improved CT evaluation of the abdomen in the portal venous phase. DLIR strength should be chosen to balance the degree of desired denoising for a clinical task relative to mild blurring.[13]..................

MRITo develop a deep learning algorithm for automated detection and localization of intracranial aneurysms on time-of-flight MR angiography and evaluate its diagnostic performance.A deep learning algorithm detected intracranial aneurysms with a high diagnostic performance which was validated using an external data set.[14]..................

Cancer diagnosisTo conduct the breast cancer diagnosis by using principal component analysis-support vector machine (PCA-SVM) and principal component analysis-linear discriminant analysis-support vector machine (PCA-LDA-SVM) model classifier algorithms (LabVIEW).The proposed method provides improvement especially for the polynomial kernel function. An increase in classification accuracy was observed in the test phase compared to PCA-SVM, along with improved classification.[15]..................

Cancer diagnosisTo develop a computerized image analysis system using deep learning for the detection of esophageal and esophagogastric junctional (E/J) adenocarcinoma.AI system achieved high sensitivity and acceptable specificity for the detection of E/J cancers and may be a good supporting tool for the screening of E/J cancers.[16]..................

Cancer diagnosisTo study whether an artificial intelligence (AI) system can increase the accuracy of characterizations of polyps by endoscopists of different skill levels.The method significantly increased the accuracy of evaluation of diminutive colorectal polyps and reduced the time of diagnosis by endoscopists.[17]..................

Drug developmentTo study whether recurrent neural networks can be trained as generative models for molecular structures, similar to statistical language models in natural language processing.Recurrent neural networks based on the long short-term memory (LSTM) can be applied to learn a statistical chemical language model. The model can generate large sets of novel molecules with physicochemical properties that are similar to the training molecules ones.[18]..................

GenomicsTo validate the ability of a computational approach based on deep neural networks (DeepCpG) to predict methylation states in single cells.DeepCpG yields substantially more accurate predictions than old methods. It was shown that the model parameters can be interpreted, thereby providing insights into how sequence composition affects methylation variability.[19]..................