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    Opinion: Oncologists are guardedly optimistic about AI. But will it drive real improvements in cancer care?

    Unless developers of artificial intelligence applications understand what doctors want and need, AI will become just another here today, gone tomorrow health care technology story.
    by Bruce Feinberg Jul 03, 2019 3 minutes

    Over the course of my 25-year career as an oncologist, I’ve witnessed a lot of great ideas that improved the quality of cancer care delivery along with many more that didn’t materialize or were promises unfulfilled. I keep wondering which of those camps artificial intelligence will fall into.

    Hardly a day goes by when I don’t read of some new AI-based tool in development to advance the diagnosis or treatment of disease. Will AI be just another flash in the pan or will it drive real improvements in the

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