How will AI impact the medical field, from diagnostics to surgery?
Reviewed by Jason Burns, Editorial Steward · Last updated
AI is impacting medicine by improving image-based diagnostics (radiology, pathology, ophthalmology), supporting clinical decision-making, automating documentation, and enhancing robotic-assisted surgery, while regulatory approval and clinical validation vary widely by application. As U.S. Food and Drug Administration, put it on the record: "The FDA envisions a tailored regulatory framework for AI/ML-based Software as a Medical Device that would allow the software to learn from real-world use and experience, and enable software to improve its performance."