Research Area:  Machine Learning

Abstract:

The increasing availability of biomedical data from large biobanks, electronic health records, medical imaging, wearable and ambient biosensors, and the lower cost of genome and microbiome sequencing have set the stage for the development of multimodal artificial intelligence solutions that capture the complexity of human health and disease. In this Review, we outline the key applications enabled, along with the technical and analytical challenges. We explore opportunities in personalized medicine, digital clinical trials, remote monitoring and care, pandemic surveillance, digital twin technology and virtual health assistants. Further, we survey the data, modeling and privacy challenges that must be overcome to realize the full potential of multimodal artificial intelligence in health.

Keywords:  
Computational biology and bioinformatics
Health care
multimodal
artificial intelligence
electronic health records
medical imaging

Author(s) Name:   Julián N. Acosta, Guido J. Falcone, Pranav Rajpurkar & Eric J. Topol

Publisher name:  Springer

DOI:  10.1038/s41591-022-01981-2

Volume Information:  volume 28, pages 1773–1784 (2022)

Paper Link:   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01981-2