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. 2024 Mar 20;16(3):e56538. doi: 10.7759/cureus.56538

Table 7. Some examples of machine learning techniques in healthcare.

Technique/Application Example 1 Example 2
Medical imaging analysis Deep learning for MRI image interpretation Google's DeepMind Health's artificial intelligence (AI)-based retinal disease detection
Clinical decision support systems IBM Watson Health's Clinical Decision Support System Ada Health's AI-driven symptom checker
Predictive analytics Predicting patient readmissions based on electronic health records Identifying sepsis in ICU patients using vital signs and lab values
Drug discovery and development Atomwise's AI-driven drug discovery platform BenevolentAI's AI platform for drug discovery and development
Personalized medicine Genomic sequencing and machine learning for personalized treatment plans IBM Watson for Genomics for cancer treatment
Healthcare fraud detection Detecting fraudulent insurance claims using anomaly detection techniques Optum's AI-based fraud detection system
Natural language processing Extracting information from clinical notes and reports Linguamatics' NLP platform for mining unstructured healthcare data