AI in healthcare and a center of excellence (part I)

“A center of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.”

Michael Faraday, English scientist

Since its emergence in healthcare about a decade ago, artificial intelligence and its adoption in clinical medicine and healthcare has been accelerating in the past few years. Areas such as deep learning in the form of convolutional neural networks in medical image interpretation and machine learning in decision support, as well as natural language processing in healthcare, have matured and proven to be useful in both improving quality of care…