Dr. Isaac Kohane, a pioneer in bioinformatics, is a guest on the Medicine and the Machine podcast hosted by Dr. Eric Topol. They discuss the progression of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, particularly focusing on the transition from convolutional neural networks to transformer models.
Dr. Kohane explains that AI attempts in healthcare and medicine had been made 30 years ago but failed due to insufficient patient and medical data, as well as the simplicity of neural network models at the time. However, in 2012, convolutional neural networks showed promise in detecting subtle changes in medical images that were not easily discernible to humans.