Can AI Diagnose What Doctors Miss?

Dr. Eric Topol, cardiologist, demonstrates how AI is revolutionizing medicine by interpreting images and even surpassing diagnoses made by doctors.

AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says the physician-scientist in this official TED talk in October 2023. He explains and gives examples of the ways sophisticated AI models can interpret medical images as well or better than human experts can — and, beyond that, even pick up things that human eyes can’t see.

In addition, says Dr. Topol, AI is poised to make a difference for both patients and doctors by the ‘liberation from keyboard’ factor, seeing the patient and releasing the doctors from being data clerks.