Artificial intelligence applications in medical sciences: illustrations in pharmaceutical and medical imaging areas

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been used to develop and advance healthcare industry. Typical application scenarios in medical sciences include diagnosing patients, end-to-end drug discovery and development, improving communication between physician and patient, transcribing medical records, and remotely treating patients. This paper aims at introducing AI applications in the field of medical sciences, especially the areas of pharmaceutical and medical imaging. It first introduces the current AI technologies used in medical science in general, and then showcases these applications in pharmaceutical and medical imaging areas. Insilico Medicine (Hong Kong) and Pfizer (US) are the illustration cases from pharmaceutical industry; and Deepwise (China) and GE healthcare (US) are selected cases from medical imaging industry. The comparison within each industry and between two countries (China and US) are summarized at the end.