Cleveland Clinic ready to push AI concepts to clinical practice

The Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) will not feature robots greeting visitors at the door, says its new director, but it will leverage new technology to improve diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning. 

The center is meant to be an international “hub of collaboration,” bringing together experts from pathology, radiology, oncology, information technology, computer science and genetics and providing programmatic and technology support for initiatives in augmented intelligence (AI), often called “artificial intelligence.” 

“We’re not in it because AI is cool, but because we believe it can advance medical research and collaboration between medicine and industry—with a focus on the patient,” said Aziz Nazha, MD, an AMA member and an assistant professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. 

The full American Medical Association (AMA) article can be viewed at this link.