VIDEO: AI will enhance, not harm, the patient-physician relationship
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Key takeaways:
- AI offers a complimentary role in the management of patients with kidney disease.
- Current research with AI includes analysis of radiologic images.
SAN DIEGO — AI can help specialists with the diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease but should not be viewed as a threat to the profession, speakers said here.
Peter Kotanko, MD, head of biomedical evidence generation and a research director at Renal Research Institute (RRI), Hanjie Zhang, MSC, PhD, senior director of computational statistics and AI at RRI, and Lin-Chun (Roxanne) Wang, MS, supervisor of clinical research at RRI, led a panel discussion at the Annual Dialysis Conference about the use of AI in nephrology.
“We held a questionnaire [during the session] about the physicians’ attitude toward [AI] and it turned out that, compared to European nephrologists, this group was using [AI] tools more frequently already,” Kotanko told Healio. “On the other hand, they had many of the same concerns as their European colleagues regarding privacy of patients. And there was also a sense that maybe AI can, at some point in time, replace physicians and health care providers,” Kotanko said.
“I think in the course of our [session], we were able to dispel this,” he said.
Kotanko told Healio he is optimistic that AI can be used for applications such as the analysis of radiographic images. Zhang is conducting research that uses AI to classify aneurysms. “It is something we hope will find its way into clinical practice,” Kotanko said.
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Kotanko P, Zhang H, Wang LC. Artificial intelligence (AI): Foundation and practical application. Presented at: Annual Dialysis Conference; March 8-10, 2024; San Diego.
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