Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
Coal Mine

AI to uncover COVID’s likely course in patients with already-troubled lungs

Researchers at West Virginia University are well placed to tap AI for teasing out the role of existing respiratory concerns in the progression of COVID-19.

September 15, 2020
Research

Healthcare AI researchers have new guidance for speeding lab-to-clinic turnaround

A multinational group of scholars has put together two fresh sets of guidelines for researchers testing AI applications in clinical trials.

September 11, 2020
Primary Care

AI identifies suicidal individuals using basic health data

Researchers have demonstrated the use of machine learning to predict suicides in a general population, achieving good accuracy by including data from routine health checkups.

September 10, 2020
Pathology Microscope

Google bringing AI, augmented reality to military cancer detection

The Defense Innovation Unit has tapped Google Cloud to prototype a pathology microscope equipped with both augmented reality and AI.

September 8, 2020
Childbirth

AI nabs risky abnormalities in the maternity ward

Machine learning can help post-childbirth mothers guard against problems with subsequent pregnancies, potentially saving their lives and those of their future babies.

September 2, 2020
Healthy

Amazon foregrounds consumer AI with its new health-improvement wearable

Trotting out a new digital health assistant this week, Amazon is emphasizing the wearable’s incorporation of AI to guide users toward some complicated goals.

August 27, 2020

Brain imaging a likely focus for ‘AI vs. mental illness’ researchers

Researchers in Canada are working to develop AI models for diagnosing and treating mental illness. One application in their sights involves automated interpretations of brain scans.

August 21, 2020
As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption expands in radiology, there is growing concern that AI algorithms needs to undergo quality assurance (QA) reviews. How to validate radiology AI? How can you validate medical imaging AI?

AI model suggests COVID-19 will grow more infectious

When a virus mutates, the researchers explained, it can be benign or even make the virus less dangerous to humans. In this instance, however, many detected mutations have a significant chance of becoming more infectious strains of COVID-19.

August 20, 2020