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01-10-2020 | Artificial Intelligence | Editorial
Artificial intelligence and radiomics for radiation oncology
Author:
Prof. Dr. Martin Kocher
Published in:
Strahlentherapie und Onkologie
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Issue 10/2020
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Excerpt
Human intelligent behavior includes the classification of sensory information based on previous experiences, the planning of complex actions, and the prediction of future events based on internal models of the world. Although these skills have developed in the broad natural human environment, they can be adapted to special, restricted situations such as the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Through years of training, physicians thus learn to interpret clinical signs, laboratory values, and medical images in order to come to a probable diagnosis, to plan a useful treatment, and to estimate the outcome. …