6 February 2021, 3:00 pm EST By AI in hospitals to help doctors ( Youtube/ CBC News: The National ) When a patient is rushed to the hospital, doctors would ask them to rate how much pain they are feeling on a scale of 1 to 10. However, pain tolerance is subjective and it can make it difficult for doctors to know why someone's pain is worse than the pain that other patients are feeling. Artificial intelligence in hospitals According to a study published in Nature Medicine, researchers used AI techniques in order to analyze knee X-rays to predict the experienced pain of the patients, especially for those who are suffering from osteoarthritis of the knee.