Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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AI combines with electricity to juice neuroscience

Mayo Clinic researchers have demonstrated an AI-based system for untangling the meandering routes taken by electric stimulation pulses delivered to a single region of the brain.

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Lab startup specializing in labeling medical images for artificial intelligence raises $15M

Centaur Labs deploys “tens of thousands” of medical students across 140 countries, competing on its smartphone app as they work to label X-ray, CT, MR, and US images for algorithms. 

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AI-driven breast cancer screening ‘a long way off’ from replicating radiologists

Ninety-four percent of systems were less accurate than a single radiologist and all fell short when put up against at least two rads.

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CT imaging features forecast outlook for patients with aggressive pancreatic cancer

Radiologists combined 10 key radiomic features with other clinical information to predict which patients were expected to survive more than three years.

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NIH doles out $11.2M for new super-resolution genome imaging center

The goal is to visualize the entire human genome, which could have important implications for understanding genetic diseases, chromosomes and more.

Pediatric patients engaged in VR much less troubled by pain

Virtual reality was highly effective at distracting young patients experiencing physical pain in a recent randomized trial. 

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Digital pathology lab deploys ‘world’s 1st’ AI-powered solution for gastrointestinal cancers

Tel Aviv, Israel-based Ibex Medical Analytics earned FDA Breakthrough Device Designation status for its platform recently after publishing promising results in The Lancet Digital Health.

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Startup aiming to root out misdiagnoses in radiology raises $25M in new funding

New York-based Covera Health said the Series C financing comes by way of private equity firm Insight Partners, with additional contributions from existing investors.