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.

New AI model could help brain cancer patients avoid biopsies

Glioma patients typically need a biopsy so physicians can make a treatment decision, but researchers have developed a new AI algorithm that could make such biopsies unnecessary. 

April 21, 2020
Covid coronavirus

Can AI, robotics help ID asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19?

Researchers in Israel are working to develop a new AI-powered COVID-19 test—and they think it could be especially effective at detecting individuals who carry the virus without showing any symptoms.

April 20, 2020
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Machine learning helps ward off med-induced heart trouble

Researchers have used computational modeling and a machine-learning approach to predict electrotoxicity in the heart “from the atom to the rhythm.”

April 16, 2020
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AI specialists gain CE mark approval for chest x-ray solution

According to the company, its newly approved AI model can play a role in helping hospitals triage patients with suspected COVID-19.

April 15, 2020
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Chat tool helping Intermountain screen, steer possible COVID-19 patients

Intermountain Healthcare, the sprawling 24-hospital system based in Utah, is partnering with a supplier of healthcare-specific virtual assistants to offer patients an automated COVID-19 interface on Intermountain’s homepage.

April 13, 2020
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Ventilator dilemma: ‘Are we comfortable sacrificing this group in exchange for saving more lives?’

The heart of the matter is that more than 8,000 ventilators aren’t in hospitals to begin with. They’re in nursing homes.

April 7, 2020
Chest X-ray. Using an explainable artificial intelligence (AI) model, researchers were recently able to accomplish highly accurate labeling on large datasets of publicly available chest radiograph X-rays.. 

AI spots pneumonia in chest x-rays of COVID-19 patients

Researchers have developed an AI algorithm that can scan the chest x-rays of COVID-19 patients for signs of pneumonia.

April 7, 2020
Covid

AI-powered search engine simplifies access to scholarly material on COVID-19

Computer scientists in Canada and the U.S. have built an AI-powered search engine for clinicians and researchers engaged in the battle against COVID-19.

April 7, 2020