Klontzas M., Fanni S., Neri E. (Eds.) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Springer Cham, 2023. — 163 p. — (Imaging Informatics for Healthcare Professionals) — eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25928-9.Provides an introduction to the basics of artificial intelligence for medical imaging professionals.
Written in minimally technical language to enable the comprehension of complicated computer science concepts.
Offers a basis for healthcare professionals aiming to apply AI in their everyday clinical or research practiceThis book aims to provide physicians and scientists with the basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a special focus on medical imaging. The contents of the book provide an introduction to the main topics of artificial intelligence currently applied to medical image analysis. The book starts with a chapter explaining the basic terms used in artificial intelligence for novice readers and embarks on a series of chapters each one of which provides the basics on one AI-related topic. The second chapter presents the programming languages and available automated tools that enable the development of AI applications for medical imaging. The third chapter endeavors to analyze the main traditional machine learning techniques, explaining algorithms such as random forests, support vector machines as well and basic neural networks. The applications of those machines in the analysis of radionics data are expanded in the fourth chapter to allow the understanding of algorithms used to build classifiers for the diagnosis of disease processes with the use of radionics. Chapter five provides the basics of natural language processing which has revolutionized the analysis of complex radiological reports and chapter six affords a succinct introduction to convolutional neural networks which have revolutionized medical image analysis enabling automated image-based diagnosis, image enhancement (e.g. denoising), protocolling, etc.. The penultimate chapter provides an introduction to data preprocessing for use in the aforementioned artificial intelligence applications. The book concludes with a chapter demonstrating AI-based tools already in radiological practice while providing insight into the foreseeable future.It will be a valuable resource for radiologists, computer scientists, and postgraduate students working on medical image analysis.True PDF