Building an AI-Enabled Metaverse for Intelligent Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

This abstract discusses the development of a metaverse for intelligent healthcare, which involves creating a virtual environment where healthcare professionals, patients, and researchers can interact and collaborate using digital technologies. The metaverse can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare services and provide new opportunities for research and innovation. AI models are necessary for analyzing patient data and providing personalized healthcare recommendations, but the data in a metaverse setting is inherently multimodal, unstructured, noisy, incomplete, limited, or partially inconsistent, which poses a challenge for AI models. However, it becomes necessary the integration of AI models for the development of virtual scanners to simulate image modalities, and robotics to simulate surgical procedures within a virtual environment. The ultimate goal is to leverage the power of AI to enhance the quality of healthcare in a metaverse for intelligent healthcare, which has the potential to transform the way healthcare services are delivered and improve health outcomes for patients worldwide.