The module will gauge what would suit a particular patient and decide on treatment. In fact, AI will help customise treatment plans and risk assessment, enabling doctors to go beyond a generalised structure for everyone.
This is part of a project sanctioned by the ministry of health and family welfare to the PGI’s telemedicine department as centre of excellence for AI in healthcare in the country. Two other centres, AIIMS, Delhi, and AIIMS, Rishikesh, have also been selected.
“With the introduction of AI, the aim is to design a prediction model from the data bank of such patients to find out how a particular patient is responding to a treatment,” said Dr Nipun Verma, department of hepatology, PGI.
He said, “For instance, not all alcoholic hepatitis patients are similar. There is a heterogeneity in presentation, outcomes and some of these are very sick patients. A total of 30% of these can come out and survive for a decade after leaving alcohol, another 30% can remain at the same stage , while in another 30% the disease progresses even after leaving alcohol.”
Artificial intelligence can indicate how many such patients will recover or die. “If a patient is in a ward, based on his prediction of outcome, his transfer from a ward to ICU or to a high dependency unit can be decided,” said Dr Nipun.
