The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), big data analysis, network communication and other technologies has brought huge opportunities and challenges to the development of laboratory medicine. Laboratory big data should be integrated with AI to optimize the management of the laboratory system and to assist clinicians in making decisions. Laboratory AI has great prospects in four areas: patient-centered laboratory AI, construction of personalized preventive health care system, personalized management of chronic diseases, and improvement of medical imbalance. Currently, there are still some difficulties and challenges in developing laboratory AI products.

Laboratory medicine; Artificial intelligence (AI); Machine learning (ML); Big data; Data mining