By Charles Burkett
POSTED: MAR 4 2020 9:16PM CST
DENTON - The University of North Texas is starting a new master's program in artificial inteligence, or AI; the first of its kind here in Texas. They are offering three programs, one specifially in biomedical AI. There are current studies going on with this field at the College of Engineering located at Discovery Park.
The dean of the College of Engineering at UNT, Yan Huang, Ph.D., says that, "Because AI is pervasive, it's using a lot of application domains. And in those areas, they are are needed for people having expertise in that domain as well as AI."
These studies will impact healthcare and other medical fields. These will also help individuals to be able to claim certain prostetics with greater technology on their insurance in the near future.
"I am showing a single metric that every patient is improving by using microprocessor knees," says Dahsnia Dabashum, a first year master's student, "Insurance company doesn't give the money for the microprocessor knee, so you have to prove that using this will improve your health."
This will alow people to be able to have their insurance providers to pay for the newer technology, ultimately improving their health and way of life. This will change the options people have for prostetics with their doctors in the near future.
This program and three others are set to start in the fall of 2020.
