The adoption of AI is now broadening to public healthcare with the Health Ministry driving initiatives to use AI to detect diseases. — Image by freepik
A man in his 60s showed up for a routine health screening at a private hospital in Klang Valley last year. Despite being a smoker, he wasn’t displaying any symptoms that might have indicated a health issue.
On that day, he also underwent a chest X-ray augmented by artificial intelligence (AI) software, which was designed to detect subtle abnormalities that the human eye may sometimes overlook.
