The multihospital Baptist Health system is responding to the national shortage of N95 masks by sanitizing its existing supply for safe reuse. And it’s delegated the task to non-humans.

Imaging experts are concerned artificial intelligence is not being trained on robust datasets, while developers say their platforms are already working in real-world situations.

“This is one of the first times that artificial intelligence has been used to better define the different parts of a newborn's brain on an MRI," Canadian researchers explained March 26 in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

The fully digital modality can also offer insights into various neurodegenerative diseases, German researchers wrote. 

An increasing number of artificial intelligence firms are tweaking existing platforms or creating new models to help clinicians handle the growing pandemic.

The coronavirus crisis continues to unite heretofore unaffiliated technology powerhouses at the forefront of AI and other forms of IT innovation in healthcare. The trend continued March 26 with the launch of a multifaceted, far-flung and very well-funded institute.

Two data scientists say they’ve created AI algorithms that can do in a week what biological researchers might otherwise spend years trying to pull off in a laboratory: discover antibody-based treatments that have a fighting chance to beat back COVID-19.

"It is our hope that in [the] future doctors might be able to use a device like ours to precisely identify diseases as they develop at the cellular level, in real-time, and in high resolution," researchers wrote.