Soumya Ray
Case Western Reserve University, OH·Computer Science
As artificial intelligence (AI) assistants take on parts of skilled medical work, a new question arises: what happens to human expertise? Professionals may come to rely on these assistants.
- Fields
Computer Science
Psychology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
artificial intelligence
AI assistance
human-AI interaction
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Sep 2027
What they work on
- Measure how AI assistance changes learning, adaptation, and loss of visual search skill, the skill radiologists use to examine medical images, in novices and in medical residents.
- Test how AI aids affect skill learning and atrophy for spatial navigation under misaligned visual and motor spaces, a core skill in robotic laparoscopic surgery, through human participant experiments.
- Compare different AI assistant designs to determine which best preserve or support human perceptual and spatial navigation skills.
More about the research
Skills they learned might fade, and new trainees might learn skills differently or less well. Understanding these effects matters for workplace safety, training, and patient care.
Why it matters
AI aids are spreading in medicine, but they could erode the skills of the clinicians who use them. By identifying which assistant designs support skill learning and which cause skills to fade, this work could guide the design of safer AI tools and better training protocols. This would benefit radiologists, robotic surgeons, and their patients.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Case Western Reserve University: 34 labs on PI Pages, $643M a year on research, 213 research doctorates a year.
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