AI
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s with artificial intelligence and brain scans
In recent years, scientists and clinicians have focused their attention toward machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help them diagnose ...
Can Google’s medical AI improve our medical system? Laboratory results and real life offer different answers
[A] study from Google Health—the first to look at the impact of a deep-learning tool in real clinical settings—reveals that ...
Coronavirus opens door for expanded use of artificial intelligence at hospitals
The Royal Bolton Hospital is among a growing number of health-care facilities around the world that are turning to AI ...
Using artificial intelligence to predict who will get sickest from coronavirus
Scientists in the United States and China have developed a prototype artificial intelligence (AI) tool that, in a small-scale study, ...
If we use it correctly, artificial intelligence could help us fight the next epidemic
It was an AI that first saw it coming, or so the story goes. On December 30, an artificial-intelligence company ...
Bill Gates: AI, gene editing could help us reach global health goals ‘exponentially’ faster
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 ...
Why AI doctors could signal the arrival of superintelligent robots
What would alert us that superintelligence is indeed around the corner? We might call such harbingers canaries in the coal ...
Using AI to predict life expectancy—and identify candidates for experimental trials—among glioblastoma patients
Glioblastoma is an aggressive, killer disease. While victims of this fast-moving brain tumor comprise only about 15% of all people ...
Targeting super bacteria with artificial intelligence yields ‘powerful’ discovery
We’re now facing the emergence of strains of super bacteria resistant to one or more antibiotics and an aging arsenal ...
Viewpoint: AI could guide us in understanding which cancer patients likely to benefit from expensive immunotherapy
Over the last decade, significant advances in research, education, early detection methods and treatment have boosted cancer survival rates while ...
Viewpoint: Artificial intelligence ‘without guard rails’ is growing global threat
Technology is bestowing wonderful opportunities and benefits to the world, but the acceleration of development, and lack of global regulatory ...
Can artificial intelligence diagnose diseases? Promising apps in development but kinks remain
An algorithm that can spot cause and effect could supercharge medical AI. The technique, inspired by quantum cryptography, would allow ...
Viewpoint: AI has one glaring weakness in health care: There’s no human touch
It might be that, as physicians who work in a public health care system that relies on fax machines, carbon ...
There’s a potential threat from cancer-spotting AI: overdiagnosis
These days, it might seem like algorithms are out-diagnosing doctors at every turn, identifying dangerous lesions and dodgy moles with ...
If you face a life-or-death medical crisis, can you trust artificial intelligence (AI) to make the best decision?
Deep learning will radically change aspects of our medical care. How well do we need to understand how AI tools ...
Rethinking the brain’s reward system—and what creates human intelligence
In a paper published in Nature ... DeepMind, Alphabet’s AI subsidiary, has once again used lessons from reinforcement learning to ...
We’ve been dealing with measles for at least 2,000 years, genetic analysis suggests
In the 10th century, Persian physician Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi wrote about patients with fever, anxiety and full-body rashes — ...
‘Mini-computers’ found in our neurons could be key to developing more powerful AI networks
With just their input cables, human neurons can perform difficult logic calculations previously only seen in entire neural networks. To ...
Video: Building a bionic prosthetic leg that ‘thinks for itself’
It’s no question that researchers, doctors, and engineers want to design more effective robotic limbs that can help paralyzed and ...
Rapid-diagnosing AI makes brain cancer operations ‘safer and more effective than ever before’
Expert human pathologists typically require around 30 minutes to diagnose brain tumors from tissue samples extracted during surgery. A new ...
Can synthetic biology help deliver an AI brain as smart as the real thing?
To create artificial general intelligence, we need to study the brain ...
Second opinion? Google AI spots breast cancer more accurately than radiologists, in trial
Researchers at Google, working alongside experts at Northwestern University and three British medical institutions, have created an AI model that ...
We can’t embrace machine learning in healthcare without ‘serious vetting’ of the underlying data
Given that machine learning in the health domain can have a direct impact on people’s lives, broad claims emerging from ...
Does AI represent our best bet for extending human lives?
Co-founder and CEO [of Insilico Medicine] Alex Zhavoronkov said he believes there is no greater goal in healthcare today—or, really, ...
Dark side of brain upgrades: They could give corrupt leaders ‘the ultimate way to ensure good citizenship’
It’s 2045. You stroll into the Center for Mind Design. There you can purchase a brain chip to augment your ...
Infographic: 13 ways artificial intelligence will help us live to 100
We've long been searching for ways to extend the human lifespan, which currently sits around 79 years. Of course, there ...
Podcast: How artificial intelligence, machine learning can help us realize the value of all that genetic data we’re collecting
Everywhere we look these days, someone is talking about the potential for artificial intelligence and machines to change the face ...
