ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A TOOL FOR DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT IN THE DIAGNOSTICS OF ONCOLOGICAL DISEASES

Abstract

At present, there is a significant interest in the introduction of artificial intelligence into practical health care. Giants of the IT industry, such as Google, Microsoft, IBM launched ambitious large-scale medical projects based on artificial intelligence technologies. Moreover, national reports, dealing with using artificial intelligence in national health systems, are published in some developed countries.The paper gives a brief overview of the methods and tasks of artificial intelligence and discusses the prospects for its application to cancer diagnostics and treatment. Progress in automatic recognition of medical imagesis discussed. Artificial intelligence is shown to be able to cope with the task of finding a tumor and its metastases on digital microscopic photographs even better than the pathologist. The problem of malignant tumor diagnosis based on biopsy results is considered. This problem is shown to be solved with a high level of accuracy using various methods of artificial intelligence. The application of expert systems in oncology is discussed. The system "Oncological screening", designed to determine a patient's risk group for cancer, is considered.