How Information Technology Helps in Patient Treatment
26.11.2024
About the future of information technology in medicine, BelTA correspondent spoke with experts of the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems.
In December, the ceremony of awarding Nobel Prize winners in chemistry David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Giamper will be held in Stockholm. Their works have revolutionized in areas such as biology, pharmacology, and medicine. Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Cybernetics of the UIIP, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences Alexander Tuzikov explains the reason for the success: Nobel laureates have solved one of the most difficult scientific tasks associated with the construction of three-dimensional protein structures.
“Protein is the main builders of the body, having, however, an extremely complex structure. The difficulty of working with them is just in the "uncleaning" of protein. Nobel laureates taught neural networks to predict their structure by linear sequence, and with high accuracy, which will subsequently create absolutely personalized drugs for each person individually, including for the fight, for example, with genetic diseases. This will be a colossal breakthrough,” the Belarusian computer scientist does not doubt.
“In our country, artificial intelligence technologies have received the most rapid development in areas where it is necessary to process well-structured information. First of all, we are talking about the text, methods of translating speech into text, text in speech and from one language to another. All this has already learned to do, but, even more significantly, the developed systems have the ability to analyze information. Analysis of the accumulated information - this AI is already co-hosted quite successfully. Our institute also operates a laboratory engaged in speech technologies, - said the computer scientist. - The following very important area of work in the Institute with AI - analysis of images used in various fields of activity: from conducting social networks to industrial images of chips, medical images and satellite images of remote sensing of the Earth.
In the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems, several departments are engaged in the processing of medical data. The main attention of scientists pays to the improvement of diagnosis, based on the analysis of x-rays, computed tomography, ultrasound and histological images. Alexander Tusikov, who oversees these studies, notes that a number of quality developments have been created that have reached the stage of industrial designs, and now it is important to integrate them into health systems.
Another important and relevant direction in medicine, where Belarusian scientists successfully use artificial intelligence, is pharmacology. The development of new drugs is one of the most promising areas in the field of computer science. Alexander Tusikov explained that scientists of the UIIP NAS of Belarus are searching for and generating new chemical compounds that have the necessary properties for the treatment of all kinds of diseases. Of course, this is only one of the stages of a very long and expensive process of the emergence of a new drug, but the fact that it is already responsible not only for a person, but also artificial intelligence is a certain achievement of domestic scientists in computer science.
“At this stage, we are already using this technology to find promising compounds to develop drugs against coronavirus, immunodeficiency virus, tuberculosis and some cancer targets,” he added.
Eduard Snezhko, head of the biomedical image analysis laboratory, explains that research in the field of computer science helps to level the differences in the experience, age and educational level of diagnosticians. This contributes to faster and more accurate diagnosis. “Our research based on the creation of information systems that can analyze huge amounts of medical data reduces the risk of misdiagnosance.”
According to Eduard Snezhko, domestic medical institutions have already begun to use such systems, and now scientists are working to make them available to more specialists in this field. In the future, it is planned to integrate these technologies into all medical information systems so that doctors can use artificial intelligence by simply pressing several buttons without changing their workflow.
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In December, the ceremony of awarding Nobel Prize winners in chemistry David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Giamper will be held in Stockholm. Their works have revolutionized in areas such as biology, pharmacology, and medicine. Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Cybernetics of the UIIP, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences Alexander Tuzikov explains the reason for the success: Nobel laureates have solved one of the most difficult scientific tasks associated with the construction of three-dimensional protein structures.
“Protein is the main builders of the body, having, however, an extremely complex structure. The difficulty of working with them is just in the "uncleaning" of protein. Nobel laureates taught neural networks to predict their structure by linear sequence, and with high accuracy, which will subsequently create absolutely personalized drugs for each person individually, including for the fight, for example, with genetic diseases. This will be a colossal breakthrough,” the Belarusian computer scientist does not doubt.
“In our country, artificial intelligence technologies have received the most rapid development in areas where it is necessary to process well-structured information. First of all, we are talking about the text, methods of translating speech into text, text in speech and from one language to another. All this has already learned to do, but, even more significantly, the developed systems have the ability to analyze information. Analysis of the accumulated information - this AI is already co-hosted quite successfully. Our institute also operates a laboratory engaged in speech technologies, - said the computer scientist. - The following very important area of work in the Institute with AI - analysis of images used in various fields of activity: from conducting social networks to industrial images of chips, medical images and satellite images of remote sensing of the Earth.
In the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems, several departments are engaged in the processing of medical data. The main attention of scientists pays to the improvement of diagnosis, based on the analysis of x-rays, computed tomography, ultrasound and histological images. Alexander Tusikov, who oversees these studies, notes that a number of quality developments have been created that have reached the stage of industrial designs, and now it is important to integrate them into health systems.
Another important and relevant direction in medicine, where Belarusian scientists successfully use artificial intelligence, is pharmacology. The development of new drugs is one of the most promising areas in the field of computer science. Alexander Tusikov explained that scientists of the UIIP NAS of Belarus are searching for and generating new chemical compounds that have the necessary properties for the treatment of all kinds of diseases. Of course, this is only one of the stages of a very long and expensive process of the emergence of a new drug, but the fact that it is already responsible not only for a person, but also artificial intelligence is a certain achievement of domestic scientists in computer science.
“At this stage, we are already using this technology to find promising compounds to develop drugs against coronavirus, immunodeficiency virus, tuberculosis and some cancer targets,” he added.
Eduard Snezhko, head of the biomedical image analysis laboratory, explains that research in the field of computer science helps to level the differences in the experience, age and educational level of diagnosticians. This contributes to faster and more accurate diagnosis. “Our research based on the creation of information systems that can analyze huge amounts of medical data reduces the risk of misdiagnosance.”
According to Eduard Snezhko, domestic medical institutions have already begun to use such systems, and now scientists are working to make them available to more specialists in this field. In the future, it is planned to integrate these technologies into all medical information systems so that doctors can use artificial intelligence by simply pressing several buttons without changing their workflow.
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