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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 2023 Year in Review

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medRxiv
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10.1101/2024.02.28.24303482

Background

The infodemic we are experiencing with AI related publications in healthcare is unparalleled. The excitement and fear surrounding the adoption of rapidly evolving AI in healthcare applications pose a real challenge. Collaborative learning from published research is one of the best ways to understand the associated opportunities and challenges in the field. To gain a deep understanding of recent developments in this field, we have conducted a quantitative and qualitative review of AI in healthcare research articles published in 2023.

Methods

We performed a PubMed search using the terms, “machine learning” or “artificial intelligence” and “2023”, restricted to English language and human subject research as of December 31, 2023 on January 1, 2024. Utilizing a Deep Learning-based approach, we assessed the maturity of publications. Following this, we manually annotated the healthcare specialty, data utilized, and models employed for the identified mature articles. Subsequently, empirical data analysis was performed to elucidate trends and statistics.Similarly, we performed a search for Large Language Model(LLM) based publications for the year 2023.

Results

Our PubMed search yielded 23,306 articles, of which 1,612 were classified as mature. Following exclusions, 1,226 articles were selected for final analysis. Among these, the highest number of articles originated from the Imaging specialty (483), followed by Gastroenterology (86), and Ophthalmology (78). Analysis of data types revealed that image data was predominant, utilized in 75.2% of publications, followed by tabular data (12.9%) and text data (11.6%). Deep Learning models were extensively employed, constituting 59.8% of the models used. For the LLM related publications,after exclusions, 584 publications were finally classified into the 26 different healthcare specialties and used for further analysis. The utilization of Large Language Models (LLMs), is highest in general healthcare specialties, at 20.1%, followed by surgery at 8.5%.

Conclusion

Image based healthcare specialities such as Radiology, Gastroenterology and Cardiology have dominated the landscape of AI in healthcare research for years. In the future, we are likely to see other healthcare specialties including the education and administrative areas of healthcare be driven by the LLMs and possibly multimodal models in the next era of AI in healthcare research and publications.

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