Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medical Imaging: Role in Fighting the Spread of COVID-19

Zainal, M. M.; Hamdan, A.

The research aims to define the need and importance of artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector in general and the medical imaging and radiology procedures in specific. This research is based on numbers and facts taking from other investigations about artificial intelligence in general and the present and studies of the healthcare sector’s current Artificial Intelligence (AI) role. To simplify, the chapter will focus on the AI in healthcare facilities and how it can help solve problems and make the best decisions for the organization and public health by reducing human errors and increasing the perfection of discovering some diseases. Moreover, to achieve the medical providers’ goals that aim to achieve the quality of care, we are going to talk about applying the AI in the radiology department. It’s a role to help the radiologists in better diagnosis and how it could increase the efficiency of the operations by using the database of information gathered by the modern techniques. On the other hand, this article and according to the current global situation will talk about fighting the spread of Coronavirus with the new Medical Imaging technology in general and in Bahrain’s society in specific. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.