Orvostechnikai és biotechnikai műszaki tudományok és technológia
Voice-controlled devices are becoming increasingly common in our everyday lives as
well as in medicine. Whether it is our smartphones, with voice assistants that make
it easier to access functions, or IoT (Internet of Things) devices that let us control
certain areas of our home with voice commands using sensors and different communication
networks, or even medical robots that can be controlled by a doctor with voice instructions.
Over the last decade, systems using voice control have made great progress, both in
terms of accuracy of voice processing and usability. The topic of voice control is
intertwined with the application of artificial intelligence (AI), as the mapping of
spoken commands into written text and their understanding is mostly conducted by some
kind of trained AI model. Our research had two objectives. The first was to design
and develop a system that enables doctors to evaluate medical data in 3D using voice
control. The second was to describe the legal and ethical issues involved in using
AI-based solutions for voice control. During our research, we created a voice control
module for an existing software called PathoVR, using a model taught by Google to
interpret the voice commands given by the user. Our research, presented in this paper,
can be divided into two parts. In the first, we have designed and developed a system
that allows the user to evaluate 3D pathological medical serial sections using voice
commands. In contrast, in the second part of our research, we investigated the legal
and ethical issues that may arise when using voice control in the medical field. In
our research, we have identified legal and ethical barriers to the use of artificial
intelligence in voice control, which need to be answered in order to make this technology
part of everyday medicine.