State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Improving Patient Outcomes Pertaining to the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems

With the ever-increasing amount of biomedical data gathered by hospital monitors, wearable devices, and the Internet of Things (IoT) and also with the advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) and computational hardware, there is an explosion of interest in applying AI in solving problems in biomedicine and healthcare. This chapter provides a basic introduction to AI and explains the motivation for using AI in medicine. The main body of this chapter summarizes the recent applications of AI to improve patients’ cardiovascular and respiratory system outcomes. At the end, the limitations and the forecasted future of AI in medicine are also discussed.