Within the healthcare and life sciences industries, Intel®, in collaboration with our ecosystem of partners is turning AI into a reality. These industries face formidable challenges due to a growing and aging population, chronic diseases, and workforce shortages. AI technology can help healthcare providers and labs overcome these challenges.
Intel® provides a comprehensive AI portfolio, ensuring secure, sustainable, scalable, and interoperable solutions. In conjunction with our team of engineers and architects, Intel's offerings have been empowering healthcare and research organizations to deploy AI that positively impacts lives worldwide and addresses some of the most pressing challenges in the industry.
This blog includes a collection of stories that showcase Intel's AI's benefits in medical imaging, digital hospitals, and scientific discovery. In addition, we've included ways that our technology is helping AI be more secure and effective through open federated learning and confidential computing. A list of resources has been consolidated to learn more information and get you started on optimizing your AI solution with Intel® solutions.
Revolutionizing Medical Imaging with AI
AI's potential in healthcare shines in medical imaging, offering fast diagnoses, effective treatments, and improved patient outcomes. Here are three stories that exemplify how Intel's AI solutions transform medical imaging:
- AI-Based Organ Contouring: Advancing cancer treatment through automated mapping of organs at risk during radiation therapy planning. Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions, and Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit are helping speed up AI model inference, lowering costs, and reducing energy consumption. Read more
- Breast Cancer Diagnostics: Improving beast cancer screening AI models that use Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, Intel® Optimization for TensorFlow, and Intel® Deep Learning Boost for training. The resulting solution streamlines breast cancer diagnosis. Read more
- Analysis of Medical Images: Accelerating X-Ray Image and fMRI AI Models to keep up with the pace of clinical workflows and improve diagnostics with Intel® CPUs, Intel® Extension for PyTorch, and Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit. Read more
Discover more stories in medical imaging: Identifying Nerves in Real Time , Detecting Colon Cancer , Enhanced Preventative Care , Innovation in Ultrasound Design , and AI Powers Improved Breast Cancer Screening.
Digital Hospitals: Shaping the Future of Healthcare
Digital hospitals, enhanced by AI, are transforming healthcare delivery. These stories bring to life the real-world impact of AI in hospital operations:
- Predictive Analytics for Early Intervention: Partners are using Intel® Developer Cloud, Intel® oneAPI Toolkits, Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Optimization for PyTorch, and Intel® AI Builders program to accelerate their applications requiring high-performance, multiarchitecture computing. This is helping reduce cost and bring to life AI models integrated into medical imaging devices, electroencephalogram signal processing, liquid-based cytology, and image analysis for disease and mental health diagnostics. Read more
- Adverse Movement Detection: Detecting dangerous patient movements during home blood transfusion with Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and Intel® Core™ processors. Read more
Explore further: Clinicians Train AI to Recognize a Rare Disease , Protein Structure Prediction and Medical Image Classification , Smart Hospitals - Delivering Timely , Cost-Effective, State-of-the-art Patient Care , and Medical Data Anonymization for Protecting Patient Data While Improving AI Models.
This technology extends beyond the four walls of the hospital; see this video and webpage to see how AI and machine learning can help reduce the likelihood of astronauts developing cancer while in space.
Scientific Discovery: Building for Today and Designing for Tomorrow
AI plays a pivotal role in life sciences by accelerating the time to insight and reducing the time to market through efficiency and productivity gains. It enhances research and development processes, accelerates drug discovery, optimizes clinical trials, and aids in personalized medicine. AI-powered analytics and data processing enable precise diagnostics, while predictive algorithms help in disease prevention and early invention. The AI transformation is reshaping the life sciences sector, helping to discover and bring therapies to market in record time and improving patient outcomes through personalized medicine and early disease detection. Dive into the impact of AI in life sciences with these stories:
- Genomics Data Processing: Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory help increase RNA sequencing pipeline. Read more
- AI Connect for Scientific Data (AiCSD): Open-source software helps expedite discoveries and enhance research precision. Read more
Further insights: AI in Life Sciences Business Brief.
Open Federated Learning and Confidential Computing
Federated learning is an approach to AI model training that facilitates collaboration among healthcare and research institutions in AI research while safeguarding patient privacy. This initiative accelerates medical research and innovation by enabling secure and privacy-preserving data sharing while training a collective AI model. Confidential computing further fortifies data security and privacy, ensuring that sensitive healthcare information remains protected and compliant with stringent regulations. Explore how Intel® is securely accelerating research:
- Enabling Big Data for Rare Cancer Boundary Detection: Research publication highlighting the results of federated learning research to improve AI model for cancer boundary detection evaluated on Intel® Core™ i7 Processors. Read more
- Improving AI Models for More Effective Cancer Treatment: Privacy-preserving AI technique using Intel federated learning technology paired with Intel® Software Guard Extensions enables researchers to improve cancerous brain tumor detection. Read more
For a deeper understanding: How OpenFL Can Boost Your Federated Learning Project , Streamlining the Clinical Drug Trial Process , Detecting Rare Childhood Condition , and OpenFL Git Hub.
More Information and Resources
AI Developers:
- Explore AI development kits and libraries, and join a community of innovators through the Developer Zone
- Access a scalable AI research and development environment with the Intel® Developer Cloud.
- Discover comprehensive AI learning resources via AI Courses and Certifications.
- Collaborate with peers in the AI Developer Community.
Other resources: Benchmark results for Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and OpenVINO Model Server ; AI Tools, Libraries, and Framework Optimizations ; Introduction to Distributed Computing ; AI Inference on CPUs ; Intel® Geti™ platform ; MLCommons Habana Gaudi2 and 4th Gen Intel Zeon AI Training Results
AI Device Manufacturers:
- Dive into AI hardware and software solutions through an end-to-end Intel® AI portfolio.
- Explore integrated software and hardware systems through the Solutions Marketplace.
- Partner with Intel for AI device manufacturing through the Intel® Partner Alliance.
Other resources: AI in Life Sciences Business Brief ; AI in Healthcare Solution Brief
IT Infrastructure Teams:
- Explore our comprehensive AI product portfolio.
- Learn about AI hardware solutions designed to optimize AI workloads.
- Discover virtualization technologies.
More information: AI and 5G in Healthcare , Security Solutions to Safeguard Healthcare IT Systems
Join the Transformation - Explore Healthcare and Life Sciences AI with Intel®
Where do you even begin when you journey from the whiteboard to the digital hospital or the lab of the future? You start with the right chips, the right software, and teams of engineers to help bring your ideas to life. Because with the right foundation, your ideas can go anywhere and everywhere.
How can your healthcare and life sciences innovation become real? It starts with Intel®.
To delve deeper into the journey of AI in healthcare and life sciences and explore the full spectrum of resources available, we invite you to visit the Intel Healthcare and Life Sciences AI webpage and read the "Innovate in Healthcare and Life Sciences with Intel Graphics Solutions " Business Brief.
Reach out to Intel's Health and Life Sciences team at health.lifesciences@intel.com or learn more about what we do at https://www.intel.com/health.
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About the Author
Kaeli Tully is a Healthcare Systems and Solutions Engineer at Intel® working across the ecosystem to deliver innovative solutions. She has a Bachelor of Sciences from the University of California, Davis, in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior. Reach out to learn more from her here .
Thank you to all of the contributors who helped consolidate resources and provide input - Blake Harlan, Megan Kuo, Lindsay Michelet, Nathan Peper, Gustavo Reyna, and Dr. Arlyne Simon.