Diagnostic robot

In medicine and robotics, diagnostic robots are diagnosis tools in the form of a physical robot or a software expert system. Developed in the 1970s near the height of the AI boom, automatic diagnosis systems are capable of gathering data for medical diagnosis with its knowledge based subsystem, and tools such as a tendon-actuated, anthropomorphic finger, skin-like sensors for tactile perception, etc.^[1][2]

In February 2013, IBM announced that Watson software system's first commercial application would be for utilization management decisions in lung cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in conjunction with WellPoint (now Anthem). In 2013, IBM Watson's business chief Manoj Saxena says that 90% of nurses in the field who use Watson now follow its guidance.^[3][4]

See also

• Computer-aided diagnosis
• Mycin
• Robotic surgery

References

1. Salcudean, S. E.; Bell, G.; Bachmann, S.; Zhu, W. H.; Abolmaesumi, P.; Lawrence, P. D. (1999), "Robot-Assisted Diagnostic Ultrasound - Design and Feasibility Experiments", Miccai99, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1679, Springer: 1062–1071, doi:10.1007/10704282_115, ISBN 978-3-540-66503-8
2. Dario, P.; Bergamasco, M. (1988), "An advanced robot system for automated diagnostic tasks through palpation", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 35 (2): 118–126, doi:10.1109/10.1349, PMID 3350538, S2CID 24390579
3. Upbin, Bruce (2013-02-08). "IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare". Forbes. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
4. Cohn, Jonathan (March 2013). "The Robot Will See You Now". The Atlantic.