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Exploring AI-healthcare innovation: natural language processing-based patents analysis for technology-driven roadmapping

Yu-Hui Wang (National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan)
Guan-Yu Lin (National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan) (National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 11 January 2022

Issue publication date: 24 March 2023

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Abstract

Purpose

The purposes of this paper are (1) to explore the overall development of AI technologies and applications that have been demonstrated to be fundamentally important in the healthcare industry, and their related commercialized products and (2) to identify technologies with promise as the basis of useful applications and profitable products in the AI-healthcare domain.

Design/methodology/approach

This study adopts a technology-driven technology roadmap approach, combined with natural language processing (NLP)-based patents analysis, to identify promising and potentially profitable existing AI technologies and products in the domain of AI healthcare.

Findings

Robotics technology exhibits huge potential in surgical and diagnostics applications. Intuitive Surgical Inc., manufacturer of the Da Vinci robotic system and Ion robotic lung-biopsy system, dominates the robotics-assisted surgical and diagnostic fields. Diagnostics and medical imaging are particularly active fields for the application of AI, not only for analysis of CT and MRI scans, but also for image archiving and communications.

Originality/value

This study is a pioneering attempt to clarify the interrelationships of particular promising technologies for application and related products in the AI-healthcare domain. Its findings provide critical information about the patent activities of key incumbent actors, and thus offer important insights into recent and current technological and product developments in the emergent AI-healthcare sector.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Ministry of Science and Technology for supporting this research under Grant MOST 107-2221-E-027-075. The authors also wish to thank Mr. Chu Cheng-Ah of the National Taipei University of Technology for his assistance with collecting patent data.

Citation

Wang, Y.-H. and Lin, G.-Y. (2023), "Exploring AI-healthcare innovation: natural language processing-based patents analysis for technology-driven roadmapping", Kybernetes, Vol. 52 No. 4, pp. 1173-1189. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-03-2021-0170

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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