EC Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine

Machine learning (ML) is an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that learns as it is fed data to create predictive algorithms. In medicine, it is increasingly used to predict future events that could be anticipated by preventing health-related risk factors. Until now, most medical AI research has focused on adults. Within pediatric subspecialties, pediatric pulmonology accounts for a smaller percentage of machine learning studies, and given its high prevalence, most of these have focused on asthma. With the continued development of AI, more pediatric respiratory diseases have been incorporated into ML, which also deserve discussion.

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