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Multimodal Artificial Intelligence: Next Wave of Innovation in Healthcare and Medicine

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Multimodal AI in Healthcare

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Multimodality refers to the utilization of different data types with different representational modes. Medical and health data are becoming more and more multimodal. Emerging multimodal technologies enable users to access, integrate and process multi-modal data and interact with a system in different modalities at the same time. Multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) particularly attempts to process, manage and understand these multimodal data through making multimodal inferences. In biology, medicine, and health, multimodal AI can assist in analyzing complex associations and relationships between various biological processes, health indicators, risk factors, and health outcomes, and developing exploratory and explanatory models. This chapter aims to introduce the concept of multimodal AI and discuss some of its applications in health and biomedicine.

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  1. Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center—Oak-Ridge National Lab (UTHSC-ORNL, Memphis, TN, USA

    Arash Shaban-Nejad

  2. School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Martin Michalowski

  3. Altos Labs—Bay Area Institute of Science, BAI Computational Innovation Hub, Redwood City, CA, USA

    Simone Bianco

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Shaban-Nejad, A., Michalowski, M., Bianco, S. (2023). Multimodal Artificial Intelligence: Next Wave of Innovation in Healthcare and Medicine. In: Shaban-Nejad, A., Michalowski, M., Bianco, S. (eds) Multimodal AI in Healthcare. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1060. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14771-5_1

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