Developing a medical artificial intelligence course for high school students

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) training courses often require prerequisites such as calculus or statistics. It is hence challenging to design and develop an introductory AI course for students of secondary education. This research intends to develop a medical AI course, provide high school students with an overview of deep learning applications in medical image analysis, and inspire them to pursue careers in the field of medical AI. We designed a 20-hour course, including lectures and two hands-on projects based on medical image classification. The proposed courses provided medical AI disciplines and built up their knowledge from basic to advanced levels. During the ten-day online courses, all the students were fully engaged and gave us positive feedback. The students endeavored to complete the experimental study in training, testing, and hypothesis of medical images application in the course. Their performance exceeded all expectations, for they did further analysis by tuning different hyperparameters. We designed a course evaluation form, which suggested that the students found it essential and expected to interact with the instructors. The results indicate that combining lectures with hands-on sessions would lead to evidently better achievement in terms of high school students’ medical AI knowledge and positive attitudes while addressing real-world problems in the projects. Through this innovative education model, high school students regained their enthusiasm and were encouraged to cultivate their medical AI skills through self-learning while finishing the project. We conclude that this course could be successfully applied to interdisciplinary education in high school.

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