Speaker
​​傅立成 (Li-Chen Fu) ​
​Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, NTU
Director, NTU Center for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Robotics

​Topic
​Future Trend of A.I. and Robotics in Medical Application and Related Facilities 
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Abstract

• It is non-deniable that the current world has been shaken up hard by this new wave of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and people in the world realized this mostly after AlphaGo has bursted its gigantic strength in playing chess beating the top-notch chess players from all over the world. Since then, AI has step-by-step steadily changed our life almost in every aspect, and successful evidences have been observed, e.g., in smart manufacturing, smart services, smart finance, and smart medicine, etc. Through analysis of the big data, this new AI tide leads our people’s lives to the better stage by leveraging the so-to-speak collective intelligence. As for Robotics, thanks to quick AI development, service robots have become more popularly working in our human living environment, after overcoming all sorts of uncertainties encountered while the robots are serving the humans.​
• Given this new era of human world full of AI technologies and smart robot agents, it is not surprising that mankind’s life expectancy as well as life quality will both be guarded/augmented since humans will be constantly treated within a system of Precision Medicine or even Preventive Medicine. In this talk, we will briefly mention several rising medical applications, such as AI enhanced medical imaging, safe drug prescription, mental health, clinical decision support, disease forecast, and some of their related facilities. Likely in the future, the entire human’s life span will be promisingly accompanied and cared by a bunch of smart robot agents, for example, robotic doctors, nurses, and home servants, despite our supportive younger human generation simply decreases year by year unfortunately.

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