The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a helpful glossary of commonly used terms in connection with digital health devices and medical devices that use artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning.
Titled “FDA Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Glossary—Educational Resource,” the FDA’s glossary includes detailed definitions of more than 50 different terms. Of course, it includes several of the more widely-used terms like “Artificial Intelligence,” “Digital Twin,” and the “Internet of Things.” But the glossary also includes several terms probably known only to those immersed in developing and leveraging the relevant technologies, such as “Convolutional Neural Network,” “Data Drift,” “Explainability,” and “Federated Learning.”
Each term presented in the glossary also includes links to the sources of the terminology, as well as a list of related terms.
The FDA notes that its Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Glossary is intended only for educational purposes and does not represent FDA policy nor constitute legally enforceable requirements.
The FDA’s Digital Health and AI Glossary is available at https://www.fda.gov/science-research/artificial-intelligence-and-medical-products/fda-digital-health-and-artificial-intelligence-glossary-educational-resource?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.
