Panel Discussion: The Coming of Age of AI in Medicine

AI in Medicine Europe

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Moderator:

• Vimla L. Patel (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)

Panelists:

• Edward Shortliffe (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
• Mario Stefanelli (University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
• Peter Szolovits (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)
• Michael Berthold (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)
• Vimla L. Patel (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)

It has been more than 15 years since Edward Shortliffe gave a talk at AIME in which he characterized AI in Medicine as being in its “adolescence” (Shortliffe, E.H. The adolescence of AI in medicine: Will the field come of age in the ’90s? Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 1993;5:93-106). In this panel discussion, the discussants will reflect on medical AI research during the subsequent years and characterize the maturity and influence that has been achieved to date. Participants will focus on their personal areas of expertise, ranging from clinical decision making, reasoning under uncertainty, and knowledge representation to systems integration, translational bioinformatics, and cognitive issues in both the modeling of expertise and the creation of acceptable systems.