Ethical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering

Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently considered a disruptive key technology in the field of biomedical engineering. However, there is more to it than just the applications, advantages and challenges of AI in this field. The book takes a closer look at various additional aspects and provides a more comprehensive view of AI in healthcare.

The first part provides introductory considerations from a historical, technical, socio-scientific, legal and ethical perspectives. Complementing this, the second part illustrates these topics using various applications in the field of biomedical engineering. These cannot be covered exhaustively, but a broad overview is provided and the relevant challenges are addressed. Finally, the last part deals with questions relating to the framework conditions, the regulation of AI and the associated business models.

Last but not least, brief introductory statements from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and the DGBMT on the topic of AI in biotechnology and healthcare underscore the relevance of the contributions.

Arne Manzeschke, Professor of Ethics and Anthropology, Director of the Institute for Nursing Research, Gerontology, and Ethics; Lutheran University for Applied Science Nuremberg. Training in Computer Science; Academic Studies in Theology and Philosophy in Munich, Tuebingen Erlangen-Nuremberg; President of Societas Ethica, European Society for Research in Ethics 2018–2021 Vice Chairman of the Ethics Commission on Preimplantation Diagnostics in Bavaria; Speaker of the Specialist Committee »Health Care Technology and Society« of DGBMT.

Thomas Wittenberg, Chief Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen; Lecturer (Privatdozent / Assistant Professor) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Informatics. Study of Computer Science at Christoph Newport College and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, PhD in Biomedical Engineering & Habilitation in Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Member of the Expert Committee of the DGBMT (German Society of Biomedical Engineering) and DGE-BV (German Society of Endoscopy).