Robot-Doctor: What Can It Be?

Abstract

The ethical issues of application of artificial intelligence methods in medicine are discussed and the assumption is made that the methods of artificial intelligence will solve the main ethical problem of medicine—the appointment of drugs, courses of treatment and prevention of diseases will stop without preliminary computer modeling of their consequences and optimization of given prescriptions and recommendations. The methods of creation of dynamic intellectual systems capable not only to make current diagnoses of diseases, but also to model development of diseases in time are briefly described. The latter allows you to optimize the prescribed courses of prevention and treatment of diseases. It is reported about the experience of creating a robot-doctor who performs diagnosis of diseases of the cardiovascular system, predicting the development of diseases, giving recommendations for optimizing the lifestyle and taking some medications. An example of the work of a robot-doctor is given. The robot-doctor diagnoses and predicts the development of cardiovascular diseases for three patients who differ, differing in age and sex characteristics, way of life and history. As follows from the forecasts, the same recommendations can have a different effect for each individual patient. It is noted that the robot-doctor when issuing forecasts and recommendations, takes into account the characteristics of the patient’s body, which is not always able to do a natural doctor.