H&T SUMMIT 2018: "We need to change the way in which students understand AI" (D. Cole, IBM)
Paris - Published Saturday, February 2, 2019 - 14:21 - #8130 "We need to change the way we’re educating medical students, and the way in which they understand [artificial intelligence (IA)]. The sooner we get used to it and understand its true capacity, the better care we will be able to provide (information, decisions, face-to-face contact), "said David ColeDavid Cole , IBMIBM Watson HealthWatson Health Head of Business Development and Innovation EMEAEMEAEurope, the Middle East, and Africa, who spoke at "Augmented Reality, AI & Expert Systems "workshop at Health & Tech Intelligence for people international event Value-based health care in the digital era, organized on 18 December 2018 in Paris by Care InsightCare Insight.The specialist talked about the importance of a "collaboration" between humans (radiologist) and the machine (IA) to improve the process of medical image processing , underlining the fact that the IA Watson system of IBM relied on global collaboration to power the tool with multiple images and to move it forward.
"We need to harness the power of AI the same way we did with fire, which led to our evolution," said on his side Luc SolerLuc Soler , scientific director of Research Institute against Digestive CancerInstitut de Recherche Contre les Cancers de l'Appareil DigestifInstitut de Recherche Contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif (Ircad), and CEO of the online 3D modeling service Visible PatientVisible Patient. The expert presented to the audience the augmented surgery concept, being tested in France and abroad.
Example of augmented reality in the operating room - © D.R.
AI to better structure health data (D. Cole, IBM Watson Health)
David Cole, IBM Watson Health - © D.R.
Much of the data from cloud computing, analytics, and other new technologies is unstructured, said David Cole, IBM Watson Health Head of Business Development and Innovation EMEA.
The traditional systems can’t make sense of such unstructured data (images, voice, tweets…), he added. The artificial intelligence (AI) system is trained and learns through interactions.
An AI smarter than human?
In 2011, the IBM Watson Computing System won against the human champions during the American Jeopardy TV show (IBM 2011 Grand Challenge).
Subsequently, the group decided to apply this system to healthcare by testing it at an oncology center in New York.
Medical record and research data were combined, so that the machine could assists doctors in making better medical decisions
Bringing American data to the European Union has been a challenge
Bringing this American data to the European Union has been a challenge for the company, David Cole said. He highlighted two major challenges:
- Where do you get the data from?
- Who trains the system?
"Transparency is necessary," he said.
While more than one billion radiology images are produced each year worldwide, there is a global shortage of radiologists, David Cole added. "The question, then, is how to speed up processes?," he asked, adding that IBM benefits from a global collaboration to feed images to its AI system (machine learning).
The importance of better AI training for future physicians
The expert believes that to optimize the use of artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector, it is essential to better train future practitioners. "We need to change the way we’re educating medical students, and the way in which they understand this technology. The sooner we get used to it and understand its true capacity, the better care we will be able to provide (information, decisions, face-to-face contact). "
Augmented surgery: a cooperation between the AI and the doctor (L. Soler, Ircad)
Luc Soler, Ircad and Visible Patient - © D.R.
Luc Soler, scientific director of Research Institute against Digestive Cancer (Ircad), focused on the augmented surgery concept (liver surgery).
The ideal for surgeons would be to have a transparent patient
"At the end of the day, the ideal for surgeons would be to have a transparent patient… because not seeing what goes on inside leads to errors," he said. "A solution would be for surgeons to wear a "helmet" that enables augmented reality."
In that case, the information feeded to the system comes from CTs or MRIs.
Double-checking results by technicians
Artificial intelligence is not fully perfect, it can not work alone, he said. "There are therefore 2 technicians who are responsible for double-checking results."
This system can be used to:
- Preoperative simulation ("This is what it’s mostly used for, today"):
- patient-specific modeling (v);
- applicable to any part of the human body;
- some health insurances are willing to reimburse the use of this system.
- Hololens helmet (Microsoft) use during surgery:
- fusion of the modeling image with the real image.
The next step will be the automation of the system and its "guidance".
David Cole
| Career |
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| Watson Health Responsable « développement commercial et innovation » EMEA - Londres-Oxford, Royaume-Uni January 2018 Today |
| Oxford University Expert en santé numérique - rôle consultatif April 2017 Today |
| Thinking of Oscar Co-fondateur - Oxford, Royaume-Uni June 2014 Today |
| IBM Consultant senior « ventes » - Royaume-Uni - Watson AI August 2016 at January 2018 |
| IBM Chef de projet - Europe - Watson June 2015 at August 2016 |
| Azlan - TechData Group Responsable des ventes d'IBM Software April 2013 at June 2014 |
| IBM Différents postes April 2003 at April 2013 |
Luc Soler
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| Visible Patient P.-D.G. September 2017 Today |
| Institut de Recherche Contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif Directeur scientifique February 2016 Today |
| Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire de Strasbourg Professeur enseignant-chercheur associés et invités (PAST) - associé à l'équipe chirurgicale digestive et endocrinienne du professeur Jacques Marescaux - University Hospital of Strasbourg (HUS) September 2000 Today |
| Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire de Strasbourg Directeur scientifique February 2016 at August 2017 |
| Institut de Recherche Contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif Directeur « recherche et développement » January 1999 at January 2016 |
| Visible Patient - Strasbourg P.-D.G. July 2013 at March 2015 |
| Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire de Strasbourg Directeur « recherche et développement » June 2013 at November 2014 |
