# How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2017
- Speaker: Pratik Shah
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Computer science
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/pratik_shah_how_ai_is_making_it_easier_to_diagnose_disease)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Today's AI algorithms require tens of thousands of expensive medical images to detect a patient's disease. What if we could drastically reduce the amount of data needed to train an AI, making diagnoses low-cost and more effective? TED Fellow Pratik Shah is working on a clever system to do just that. Using an unorthodox AI approach, Shah has developed a technology that requires as few as 50 images to develop a working algorithm -- and can even use photos taken on doctors' cell phones to provide a diagnosis. Learn more about how this new way to analyze medical information could lead to earlier detection of life-threatening illnesses and bring AI-assisted diagnosis to more health care settings worldwide.

## Lectures

1. [How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/pratik_shah_how_ai_is_making_it_easier_to_diagnose_disease/96833be5986f), 5 min (TED's player)