AI is increasingly being deployed in key sectors like healthcare. But how effective is its use? What problems do we see in implementing AI in high stakes scenarios like cancer diagnostics? In Episode 04 of The CCG Tech Podcast, Fawaz and Jhalak speak with Professor Subhashis Banerjee on the ground realities of AI deployment in healthcare. They look at its efficacy, use in diagnostics, the need for human in the loop, data standards, problems of manpower and skilling, and regulation.

Subhashis Banerjee is the Head of the Department & Professor of Computer Science at Ashoka University. He was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi from 1990 till August 2023. Subhashis’ primary areas of research are computer vision and machine learning, with a special emphasis on geometric algorithms. He has worked extensively on design of computing and networking infrastructure and IT services and in developing the supercomputing infrastructure at IIT Delhi, which is one of the largest in the country. 

Resources:

• Dataset worked on by IIT Delhi that has been installed at AIIMS - https://home.iitd.ac.in/show.php?id=703&in_sections=News 
• About Antimicrobial resistance - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance 

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