Oral Presentation ESA-SRB-AOTA 2019

Digital Medicine in Thyroidology: A New Era of Managing Thyroid Disease  (#22)

Jae Hoon Moon 1
  1. Seoul National University College of Medicine, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, GYEONGGI-DO, South Korea

Digital medicine has the capacity to affect all aspects of medicine, including disease prediction, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and post-treatment management. In the field of thyroidology, researchers are also investigating potential applications of digital technology for the thyroid disease. Recent studies using artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) have reported reasonable performance for the classification of thyroid nodules based on ultrasonographic (US) images. AI/ML-based methods have also shown good diagnostic accuracy for distinguishing between benign and malignant thyroid lesions based on cytopathologic findings. Assistance from AI/ML methods could overcome the limitations of conventional thyroid US and fine-needle aspiration cytology. Some web-based solutions for thyroid disease care have been developed. A web-based database for thyroid cancer care is expected to serve as a clinical platform to facilitate better thyroid cancer care and as a research platform providing comprehensive disease-specific big data. A web-based application for detecting thyrotoxicosis using biosignals from wearable devices could aid in the management
and early detection of thyroid dysfunction. In the thyroidology field, research involving the range of digital medicine technologies and their clinical applications is expected to be even more active in the future.