Healing with Artificial Intelligence

This book explores AI transformative role in healthcare, discussing the practical applications of foundational concepts like Machine Learning and Deep Learning in personalized treatments and virtual care platforms, while highlighting AI potential to revolutionize diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Diagnosis through images, robot surgeons, digital twins, and the metaverse are some of the applications in which artificial intelligence (AI) is involved. It is an almost sci-fi world that touches us closely and toward which we can harbor both great hopes and great fears. Health, in fact, is a central theme, and understanding how this new technology can help us to heal, acquire well-being, and live better is certainly important. This book, thanks to the author's great experience, deals comprehensively and accessibly with the benefits and risks of using AI in the field of health. It will enable the reader to confidently approach a revolution that will change the way we treat ourselves.

Autorentext

Daniele Caligiore is a Research Director at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (ISTC-CNR), where he works on AI for the study of the brain. He is the director and co-founder of the Advanced School in AI for the interdisciplinary study of artificial intelligence. He is also among the founding partners of AI2Life, a spin-off company of ISTC-CNR focused on AI solutions for social development and human well-being. Additionally, he teaches 'Artificial Intelligence Systems in Social Contexts' at the Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA) in Rome. He has published more than 90 scientific articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He is the author of the interdisciplinary books IA istruzioni per l'uso (2022) and Curarsi con l'Intelligenza Artificiale (2024), both published by Il Mulino, as well as Simulating the Brain: A Four-Step Method Using Ordinary Differential Equations and Python (2025), published by Springer. He serves as an evaluator for the Italian Ministry of University and Research and the European Commission, reviewing research project proposals in the fields of artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 What Artificial Intelligence Is and Its Historical Applications in Medicine

Chapter 2 How AI Will Revolutionize Disease Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention

Chapter 3 Ethics, Privacy, and Other Issues in AI Medicine

Chapter 4 The Medicine of the Future: A Contamination of Skills and Disciplines

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