Doctors, apps and artificial intelligence - The future of medicine | DW Documentary

Artificial intelligence is changing health care. It promises better diagnoses and fewer mistakes and all in less time. While some associate AI with a frightening dystopian future, many doctors see it as a source of support.
To help them care for patients, doctors are programming apps and supplying AI with data. At Berlin’s Charité hospital, Professor Surjo Soekadar is researching how neurotechnology might support paralysis patients in their everyday lives - for example, via assistance systems that are controlled via their thoughts.
This could offer hope to people like Guido Schule and Anne Nitzer. Nitzer had a stroke shortly after the birth of her second child and has been unable to move or speak since then - even though she is fully conscious.
At Vienna General Hospital (AKH) Professor Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth has already developed an AI-based diagnostic tool that has been licensed for use. Nowadays, she is researching how AI could improve both the diagnosis and the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This chronic eye disease can lead to loss of vision - even with treatment. This is a fate that Oskar Zlamala could face. But since the retiree began treatment at the AKH Vienna, he is hoping that it might be possible to halt the progression of his illness.
Computer science experts and medics are also working together to help the Essen University Hospital go digital. Dr. Felix Nensa and Professor Arzu Oezcelik are improving care for transplant patients with the help of artificial intelligence. AI can calculate the size of organs, like the liver, for example, much more precisely and more quickly than people - and thereby improve outcomes and the safety of the procedure.
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[@yvonnekneeshaw2784]

2 years ago at 64 I developed wet macular degeneration and being treated with eye injections since. Started at every 4 weeks and now very 2 months. The fluid has dried up and pray it stays this way. I too saw wavy lines as I was driving. Each sign or tree or telephone pole was wavy. Now instead of 1/2 of my right eye being completely blind, it’s greyish but can’t see very clearly. Better than complete blindness though. Glasses help vision as well. I’m very thankful for all and any medical improvements. 🇨🇦

[@samhouston1483]

AI could be a Godsend if used properly to help alleviate horrible human suffering like this and I fully welcome it

[@NIKOLAGAMING13]

Kudos to the entire DW DOCUMENTARY team, waiting for more these kind of documentaries❤

[@t29m3nf93d]

I think AI has the potential to change medicine and change the way we treat patients and this video is a great example. Especially in the example of locked-in syndrome, recent studies have shown that using AI to help people who are suffering from locked in syndrome communicate is entirely possible. But this raises some ethical questions as well. Some argue that using AI to replace communication for people with locked-in syndrome can lead to them having feeling of isolation and neglect, this was reported in a paper in the journal of Alzheimer’s disease in 2020. Another study used AI to interpret eye motion in these patients and translate them into words. This is a great improvement over past methods but there is a lot of improvement needed to make this more human. Additionally, another ethical concern when using AI to treat locked in syndrome is previously to the advent of this technology the patient would not be able to consent to the use of AI because of the communication barrier, therefore the patients family or power of attorney would make the decision for them. What about when the patient is able to communicate through the use of this AI? Do we then consider them able to make medical decisions, and if so how are we sure that the AI is interpreting their wishes correctly. Despite these concerns I think that AI has a place in medicine but there needs to be some serious discussion on the limitations and how far us as humans are willing to stretch what we thought we knew about medicine and medical ethics to add this new technology to our toolbelts.

[@tarekalmahmoud4778]

Locked in syndrome or Lateral Amyloid Multiple Sclerosis or worst and most devastating conditions I ask Allah to protect all of you of such diseases 🙏🏼

[@cookingtime1027]

Aameen

[@shireensadia9604]

Aameen❤❤❤🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻

[@maureen-rn3pv]

Thank you

[@dramaravanimedithe9149]

Amazing. The passion shown by the treating physician arousing hope in patients and relatives is incredible.

[@melvinmacharia3862]

Hi doc

[@arbaz79]

Thank you DW for this wonderful documentary.Amazing how advances in A.I technology can change our lives.

[@somaghosh2960]

In medical industry AI(Artificial intelligence) very successful. Here DW nicely explained that. Good.

[@Bahre8872]

There really is hope in sciences science never failed humanity

[@studyonline4763]

They are

[@Secular-Serenity]

I’m Science We Trust

[@bhavtosh5328]

Please make a video on SSPE disease and ongoing research of the same.

[@chad3232132]

Injections into the eye? That sounds... horrific.

[@youtbnyaindra]

Hebat pak prof Surjo!

[@ibrahimhussein9021]

AI is the future of everything

[@snowflakemelter7171]

It will be a very powerful tool/weapon in the hands of its owner.

[@studyonline4763]

Because humans would have become extinct

[@Pou1gie1]

With the Anne Nitzer situation, I have watched a video about an AI machine that reads people's minds. Electrodes are put on the head to read the brain waves to read what people are thinking and interpret it in words (maybe this is the last machine they showed). Then she could communicate with her family, and let them know her wishes and feelings. I'm thinking that her crying when seeing her husband in front of her probably has to do with missing her husband and mourning the life they had, not her being in physical pain.

[@bobbieblue1885]

Poor Anna nobody should be forced to live that way. She's probably crying because of how she has to live. I hope they manage to communicate with her.

[@PopGoesTheology]

very good documentary 5:35 20:23 WELL DONE

[@ekamangar]

AI is changing medicine in a more accurate better diagnosis. What politicians are worry about is that it will prevent corruption and some big names like big academic centers cannot discriminate between people in terms of acceptance of trainees and patient eligibility for treatment and so on. The era for big names is coming to an end so they want to set rules to manipulate AI and take advantage of it. If we want to do something for our next generations we just have to do a big clean up in superior levels of all fields.

[@somerandomfella]

Imagine if they shifted to curing people instead being reliant on meds for life..

[@lorrax]

But the money is in the treatment not in the cure

[@user-84-rg9-8n2]

Imagine if people shifted from expecting "doctors" to cure them to staying heathy in the first place . . . why you'd have the Blue Zones: Ikaria, Greece; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoyo, Costa Rica; Loma Linda, California.

[@trumanshow162]

New energies & materials, intelligent robots, advanced medicine & education, or IoT for big data are progressing. Centered on AI, they will remove the barrier between artifacts & natural objects, improving the sustainability of both sides. There are problems with the Earth’s limits, complicating society, health degradation, and the need for global governance & democracy. I hope we can achieve environmental, economic, social, and political sustainability with new techs & policies.

[@rebeckahaubertin3637]

can someone please harness my covert chip or hook me up with a BCI head piece.. doesn't hurt to ask

[@tayloreverard2039]

It's strange that people normally defend machine LEARNING by saying it can't learn outside our parameters. I find that very unconvincing - I find the idea that a machine needs power much more convincing. Genuinely scary AI would need a lot of energy. We can hardly make enough energy for ourselves... Futhermore just the same way our organs can sometimes be damaged by radiation, their circuit boards can be disrupted with electromagnetic pulses. I'm a layman - someone correct me.

[@studyonline4763]

I can see that most folks don't get what you saying. Cheap energy is central to technology. No energy, no technology, no AI

[@canvas857]

Waiting

[@karmenasea5625]

reduce human sufferings is the key here.

[@TheJoker998Fame]

As humans we should in every way try to remove pain and suffering in everyway. I really hope that AI wil save milions and more lives of people suffering from terrible illnesses. I’m so sorry for that and I wish no human on earth had to suffer from such horrible diseases. Hope for a much brighter future.

[@shifferawketema7751]

Knowledge Sharing is good Why artificial IT look without Funds or we all can see all .... Just study and If you have solution of not look /study more Learn with each other doctors

[@amberlita1779]

my mum has this and we talk to her through a letter board, she does have a computer that tracks her eye movements so she can type what she wants to say and it will speak for her. Though generally we just use the letter board, look up for yes, down for no and up and down for dont know. I will say that this video rather annoyed me, i mean yes the AI could be very useful, however the fact he was always saying he didnt know she was in pain rather than just asking her. I understand that her eyes will get sore, especially as its a new way of communicating, but its still not hard to ask her, use a letter board and talk to the darn woman jesus christ! everyone seemed to just speak over her, like they often do to my mum, they talk to the 'carer' rather than to her, even often when they know her which annoys everyone who knows my mum. She appreciates you just giving it a go. My mum has a book about the beginning of her condition, being in the coma then coming out and having to re-adjust during the first year called 'I'm glad you didnt die mummy' by Tracey Okines, sold on amazon, I recommend it if youre interested in what its like from the perspective of someone locked in.

[@user-em7tb9be6f]

Good news.. now we have AI to help reduce physician burnouts as well.

[@dorian6203]

Poor Anna. I sympathize with people who have locked-in syndrome so much. I'm sure that they are frequented by such thoughts as euthanasia, though they are unable to express them in a definite way and even if they were I'm not sure whether their closed ones would dare ask them if they wanted to end their life. But there're exceptions, of course.

[@josearellano203]

May this technology cure any disease, in a legitimate agent of the cure. I am looking forward to it. We can also get nanobots inserted in the body to get rid of diseases and make the immune system stronger. I want to forever say goodbye to Asperger's syndrome, kidney problems and the valley fever. I am optimistic about the future, and this is a reason why.

[@SuperCreativeMind]

I want to be a best Computional Neurologist

[@_SanjayBiswas]

I believe...in future.... Robots will perform operations on humans. 🙏

[@rebeckahaubertin3637]

hello python😉

[@Z71990]

I mean doctors use robotic arms for operation right ?

[@BogalaSawundiris]

@@Z71990 Means we are already halfway there

[@timebot000]

Neurolink

[@davidnyc487]

People are complaining about A.I. That it will replace a lot of jobs, but that’s what happened when they invented the wheel. 😊

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

If jobs were the only goal we’d roll-back lots of technologies. Rip out water pipes so people could get jobs as water carriers. Shut off the internet, shut down television, ban radio, severely limit newspapers so town criers can work again. No electricity so candle makers can work again. Ban farm tractors so 80% of our population can go back to subsistence farming.

[@momofighter3211]

All good, Doctors can keep doing their tiktok.

[@studyonline4763]

It's a nonsensical comparison.

[@pandre45]

The problem is the time it takes to retrain displaced people to be productive in a new work environment.

[@WilliamLeam]

Horses lost their jobs! Change is inevitable.

[@studyonline4763]

Now let's get AI and robots to harvest our fruit and vegetables

[@NicholasEllis-pe2lk]

Data is llama

[@ElectroMotoko]

Be nice if this helps with the doctor shortage. lol.

[@phil20_20]

AI is taking over China. They just don't know it yet. 😂

[@WilliamLeam]

The point is not to be fearful of AI when it can do a better job than human beings. Our fear is the fear itself which is over-reacting to events.

[@koiyujo1543]

Hello DW Documentary I would want to ask you guys to read this please of making a Documentary of the dark use of AI Art as they steal from other artists and can't create its own new art as it steals and could cause privacy and copyright issues and also stuff like the mental health problems it will cause on artists! I ask you to please talk about this as it not only threatens artists but also concept artists and its use in writing and many other things like movies or books, one of many problems like it can't draw hands yet and the thing is a YTber called ENDYMIONtv who covers this well has made a good vid on this topic I ask you please as a writer and partly time art guy please Please talk about this! It's something that we can't allow not for just privacy concerns but also copy right and stealing art from the human hands as its made by a machine and not flesh and blood please consider my comment and investigate into this topic!

[@desertstar223]

The genie is out of the boitle. As an artist the only thing you can do, is to use AI to enhance your art. AI art is here to stay. Accept it However, I agree there is copyright concerns, and it needs to addressed and a solution found. Unfortunately that's not gonna stop AI art. Technological advancement cannot be stopped. .

[@pslay9324]

People are weary of AI only because there is true evil amongst us. AI is welcomed if only good comes of it, don't use it to destroy us.

[@nesanesa9547]

A1 iş probably a distractiong of getting back to basic body health thro eating the food God gave us for free however looking forward to practical peaceful innovations...

[@md.jannatultasnim2661]

a package of Nightmare

[@lorrax]

I thought marijuana was a helpful treatment for macular degeneration? Or perhaps that is only in some cases

[@kompila]

AI is over hyped

[@TheStockwell]

It's become a phrase slapped on anything new in technology, the way everything was called "cyber" twenty years ago. My cat makes decisions without my direct intervention. Therefore, he's an AI Cyber kitten. 🤖 + 🧠 = 🐱

[@kompila]

Absolutely! 😂

[@Secular-Serenity]

Wait til it takes your job.

[@kompila]

@@Secular-Serenity Wait till you get to know new jobs will created as AI replace less useful ones.

[@carlosamado7606]

Do you feel the same after the release of gpt4 and all the explosion of LLM's that followed? Plus, the fact Nvidia has new insane graphic cards and a cloud system to train LLM's for specific things, including medicine?

[@mistycloud4455]

Ai will become more dangerous than nukes

[@bellafemepro]

In quran ALLAH says we have given human the mind to think and to discover . ALLAH 1430 years before told us embryology

[@shireensadia9604]

Indeed

[@adwillemsen583]

7.9K views and 13 comments .....mmm.....someone has been cutting out comments again ! Oops , there goes your credibility ......