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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Using Quantum Computing in the Future of Healthcare

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The concept of quantum computing has evolved over nearly a century to a point now where it is no longer science-fiction. However, conceptual extensions of quantum computation and many body systems to quantum clinical medicine and quantum surgery are completely original areas that are yet to be realized in terms of their development and full potential. Novel formalisms and approaches will have to evolve to enable these areas to fully materialize and mature into safe clinical applications that will benefit mankind.

Nevertheless, factors paving the way for this exciting area of medical and future surgical science include the exponential advances in computational power gained through newly evolved mathematical formalisms for algorithmic design such as quantum mechanics, category theory, quantum algebraic geometry and others, coupled with advances in precision nanoengineering.

This chapter offers a cursory non-exhaustive primer to the topic of quantum machine learning for medicine, surgery and healthcare, highlighting some of the areas where the authors theorise that quantum computing will help augment medicine, surgery and healthcare to usher in next-level precision medical diagnostics and therapeutics. In the not-too-distant future, quantum medicine and surgery will offer the ability to re-calibrate the continuous state of flux that occurs in conditions like cancer and neurological diseases to a manageably consistent curative state.

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Davids, J., Lidströmer, N., Ashrafian, H. (2022). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Using Quantum Computing in the Future of Healthcare. In: Lidströmer, N., Ashrafian, H. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64573-1_338

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