Towards Integration of the Systems Medicine and Medical AI

Abstract

At the beginning of the century, the emergence of systems biology and physiome have opened doors of the integrative life sciences. Until then, the reductionism approach was mainstream in the life science. And a few years later, the development of deep learning algorithm has accelerated the advancement of data analysis technology by machine learnings in a wide range of fields. In recent years, application of systems biology and machine learnings to medical science has begun. To lead the development of this new medical science, the AI systems medicine research and training center（AISMEC）was established in April 2018 at the graduate school of medicine and Yamaguchi University hospital. In this article, we briefly summarize the backgrounds of systems biology and machine learnings. Also, we introduce the activities of AISMEC and outline the situation of applications of these new technologies to medical science in recent years.