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Precision medicine, AI, and the future of personalized health care

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Johnson, Kevin B., Wei, Wei‐Qi, Weeraratne, Dilhan, Frisse, Mark E., Misulis, Karl, Rhee, Kyu, Zhao, Juan, Snowdon, Jane L.·2021·Clinical and Translational Science

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The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and precision medicine promises to revolutionize health care. Precision medicine methods identify phenotypes of patients with less-common responses to treatment or unique healthcare needs. AI leverages sophisticated computation and inference to generate insights, enables the system to reason and learn, and empowers clinician decision making through augmented intelligence. Recent literature suggests that translational research exploring this convergence will help solve the most difficult challenges facing precision medicine, especially those in which nongenomic and genomic determinants, combined with information from patient symptoms, clinical history, and lifestyles, will facilitate personalized diagnosis and prognostication.

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  • AI-powered diagnostic tools can detect diseases at their earliest stages by identifying subtle patterns and anomalies in medical images and patient data.

    “AI-powered diagnostic tools can detect diseases at their earliest stages by identifying subtle patterns and anomalies in medical images and patient data.”

    From Ethical implications of AI and robotics in healthcare: A review (2023) · cites this paper as [12]

    The Artificial intelligence section says AI recognizes sophisticated patterns in images and describes a breast-cancer algorithm that combines mammograms with health records to help detect cancer. A separate passage on nongenomic risk prediction discusses detecting disease at an earlier state using wearable data, but the paper does not establish that AI analysis of medical images and patient data detects diseases at their earliest stages generally. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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    “This early detection can lead to better outcomes and lower treatment costs.[12]”

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  • The promising utility of AI in health care has been outlined previously with possible benefits in personalized medicine, drug discovery, and the analysis of large datasets, aside from potential applications to improve diagnosis and clinical decisions.

    “The promising utility of AI in health care has been outlined previously with possible benefits in personalized medicine, drug discovery, and the analysis of large datasets aside from the potential applications to improve diagnosis and clinical decisions [17,18].”

    From ChatGPT Utility in Healthcare Education, Research, and Practice: Systematic Review on the Promising Perspectives and Valid Concerns (2023) · cites this paper as [17]

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  • The use of a fairness-aware algorithm improves the performance of the model and provides a fairer diagnosis for all patients.

    “The use of a fairness-aware algorithm improves the performance of the model and provides a fairer diagnosis for all patients [279,280].”

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  1. [7]IBM and Partners to Transform Personal Health with Watson and Open Cloud. < https://www‐03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/46580.wss> 2015.
  2. [31]National Research Council. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease (The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2011). 22536618

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Authors
Johnson, K. B., Wei, W., Weeraratne, D., Frisse, M. E., Misulis, K., Rhee, K., Zhao, J., & Snowdon, J. L.
Affiliations
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
  • IBM (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Johnson, Kevin B.
Venue
Clinical and Translational Science
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2020-10-12
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
86-93
ISSN
  • 1752-8054 (ISSN-L)
  • 1752-8062
OpenAlex
W3088017652
Cited by
1,854
References
90
Citations by year
2026: 382 · 2025: 636 · 2024: 529 · 2023: 208 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 1
FWCI
5.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Clinical and Translational Science (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Vanderbilt University
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Technology and Human Factors in Education and Health
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
Keywords
precision medicine, artificial intelligence, personalized healthcare, augmented intelligence, clinician decision-making, translational research, genomic determinants, personalized diagnosis, outcome prediction
MeSH terms
Artificial Intelligence, Delivery of Health Care, Forecasting, Humans, Risk Assessment, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Translational Research, Biomedical, Precision Medicine, Patient-Specific Modeling

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