Armando Orlandi: AI in Medicine – Insights from the Latest Nature Cancer Research
Armando Orlandi, Medical Director at the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital Foundation IRCCS, posted on LinkedIn:
“AI in Medicine: Partner, not Replacement – Insights from the Latest Nature Cancer Research
Following Prof. Franceschini’s fascinating event on AI in radiology (Gianluca Franceschini) in our Hospital (Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS), I’d like to share some reflections inspired by the recent Nature Cancer publication on the “10 Hallmarks of AI in Precision Oncology.”
Where AI Excels: The Realm of Vision The article demonstrates extraordinary AI results in:
– Mammographic screening (performance matching specialists)
– Histological analysis (predicting mutations from H&E stains)
– Radiological imaging (lung, prostate detection)
When medicine relies primarily on sight – image interpretation, pattern recognition, quantitative analysis – AI can match and exceed human performance.
Where AI Still Falls Short: The Art of the Clinician But real medicine begins where pixels end.
The clinician – from Greek “κλίνειν”, to lean toward the patient – operates in a dimension that AI still struggles to comprehend:
Emotional intelligence: reading anxiety in eyes, sensing the unspoken
Multisensory integration: hearing (cardiac murmurs), touch (palpation)
Holistic clinical reasoning: contextualizing symptoms within life stories
Therapeutic empathy: the healing power of the doctor-patient relationship
The Future: Augmented Intelligence AI won’t replace doctors; it will empower them:
- Radiologists using AI for detection + clinical expertise for decisions
- Oncologists integrating AI predictions with comprehensive patient assessment
- Family physicians combining AI screening with narrative medicine
My Vision: Image-intensive specialties will see profound transformation, but the heart of medicine – that sacred relationship born when we “lean toward” our patients – will remain human.
AI will free us from repetitive analysis to focus on what we do best: being human for other humans.
What are your thoughts?
How do you see your relationship with AI evolving in daily practice?”
Title: Hallmarks of artificial intelligence contributions to precision oncology
Authors: Tian-Gen Chang, Seongyong Park, Alejandro A. Schäffer, Peng Jiang, Eytan Ruppin
Read Full Article on Nature Cancer.
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