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Artificial Intelligence Across the Clinical Microbiology Diagnostic Workflow: A Critical Appraisal of Applications, Implementation Challenges and Research Priorities
Background and Significance: Clinical microbiology laboratories occupy a decisive position in the management of infection and in the containment of antimicrobial resistance, yet they face rising specimen volumes, contracting specialist workforces and persistent dependence on subjective visual interpretation. Artificial intelligence, and in particular supervised machine learning applied to images, mass spectra, genomes and structured laboratory data, has been proposed as a means of relieving these pressures. Purpose …