Dermocamagüey, an event for scientific exchange among Public Health specialists in Cuba’s third most populated city, will also include two fundamental topics such as sexually transmitted infections and leprosy, according to María Irene Guerrero, president of the Camagüey Chapter of Dermatology.
In the case of “Artificial Intelligence and Dermatology”, the second degree specialist and coordinator of the Specialty at the University of Medical Sciences Carlos J Finlay, Beatriz Mantecon, warned in her presentation that “for Cuba it is crucial to take the first steps on the subject, because this field facilitates the processes, although due to fear or ignorance we are reluctant to these new tools of technology”.
The doctor clarified that taking into account that medicine has its ethical codes and the implementation of artificial intelligence itself, Cuba cannot renounce these advances, especially for the treatment of new ailments in infants.
“It is used in conditions, there are tools that are by automated learning, techniques that are used in image processing according to international standards, a way to assess the severity of diseases,” Mantecon told Prensa Latina.
She referred to techniques such as skin care, “the use of the same in cancer treatments, and new algorithms, which will define between benign or malignant lesions,” she said.
Mantecon also said that artificial intelligence can be used in CT scans to make various diagnoses, and various instruments, including skin ultrasound.
Both Mantecon and Guerrero referred to the scientific capacity of Camagüey’s research community, which has been a protagonist in the upcoming inauguration of the Artificial Intelligence Institute planned for this year in Hebei, China.
“Let’s not forget that headed by Yaité Caballero, one of the most renowned Latin American researchers in the subject, and director of International Relations of the University of Camagüey, Cuba has a leading role in this new institution, in one of the Asian countries with the greatest leadership in artificial intelligence studies”, according to the interviewee.
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