Antiaging Dock: New Appearance Evaluation by AI

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is primarily advancing in the field of diagnosis. Its utility is determined by the combination of the hardware, such as the memory capacity and processing speed of the computer itself, and the software, such as AI programs, target medical fields, symptom diagnosis, image diagnosis, etc. Starting with AI for medical interviews that understands the patient’s chief complaint and medical history as divided keywords and lists potential diagnoses, there are rapidly spreading technologies such as AI for diagnostic support through the analysis of examination data already applied in electrocardiograms and blood tests, automatic reading and image diagnosis AI for chest X-ray photos and brain MRI images, skin diagnosis AI in the field of dermatology, and face diagnosis AI (Fig. 149.1) developed from face recognition technology. The benefits of using such AI include speed, accuracy, and independence from the diagnostician’s ability. Although not yet perfect, its usefulness is quite high, and it is bringing about a revolutionary change in medical diagnosis, similar to the transition from individual combat with swords to group combat with guns on the battlefield. AI technology is expected to further expand into treatment, suggesting standard internal medicine treatments based on guidelines, proposing surgical procedure choices, and postoperative management. Naturally, the application range of AI technology is also expanding in anti-aging medicine.