title: Edward Rhodes Stitt Award Lecture. Will a computer (with artificial vision) replace the surgical pathologist (or other health professionals)?
abstract: Many jobs require vision for most of the tasks performed and the discussion focuses on the nature of human visual perception. Arguments are given to support the claim that visual perception is a very complicated function of the brain. To attempt to answer whether or not artificial intelligence (AI) will ever be able to essentially do what the brain does, the history and current state of AI research is examined, with special attention to neural net research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngic and Endocrine Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Building 54, 6825 16th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20306-6000, USA.
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Heffner
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D010340:Pathology, Surgical / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*