ABSTRACT
From the earliest moments in the modern history of computers, scientists have conceptualized the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine with the hope to create AI systems that can assist clinicians in the complex medical diagnosis processes [1,2]. The earliest work in medical AI dates back to the early 1970s with applications primarily focused on constructing AI programs that perform diagnoses and make therapy recommendations [3]. Much has changed since then. A wide array of AI-inspired methods have been developed to solve a broad range of important clinical and biological problems such as computerbased knowledge generation, decision support systems, and clinical data mining [4]. This chapter focuses on one specific application of AI methodologies to medical researchmedication safety surveillance.
