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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Transforming Diagnosis and Treatment*

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 Revolutionizing Clinical Decision-Making: AI as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Tool  AI applications do not only concern diagnostics and treatment, but actively impact clinical decision-making to a large extent. Machine learning coupled with NLP techniques is being applied to electronically mine other such patients’ records, medical literature and real-time data to help clinicians with decision-making. This capability is especially useful in circumstances where there is much variability and unpredictability, such as in the provision of health care. For instance, an artificial intelligent based decision support system can take the patient’s data such as, laboratory results, medical history, and signs and symptoms to provide differential diagnoses. These systems also have the capacity to allow the doctor to forecast the future health status of the patient for one to indicate that a particular disease might be worsening or has high chances of developing complications. It is also us...