Global news round-up from the world of artificial intelligence in medicine
New AI tool locates presence of asbestos cancer in patients
Scottish study team creates AI tool to assess patients receiving mesothelioma treatment, potentially 'revolutionizing' care
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Microsoft makes $16bn entry into healthcare AI
Tech giant confirms plans to buy AI and speech recognition firm Nuance Communications
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Deep learning models improve lung cancer survival predictions
Researchers at Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies in the US, report using deep learning to develop several lung cancer survival prediction models
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AI and simple blood test may flag early stage Alzheimer’s
New study raises the prospect of early intervention in the fight against the disease as impending ‘silver tsunami’ looms
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New artificial intelligence tool can help detect melanoma
Using deep convolutional neural networks, researchers can quickly analyze wide-field images of patients’ skin in order to more efficiently detect cancer
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Exclusive interviews with the key movers, shakers and thought leaders
Rising Star!
Named AI Rising Star 2020 at the recent AIMed AI Champions Awards, Dr. Addison Gearhart MD, a Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quietly blazing a trail
Life in the fast lane
Co-founder of fast.ai and named by Forbes magazine as one of ‘20 Incredible Women in AI’, Rachel Thomas talks data ethics, bias in machine learning and a lifetime of tearing down barriers
Rocket Man!
Rocket scientist-turned-neurosurgeon Dr. Eric Eskioglu, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer for Novant Health, talks about his stellar journey, the power of AI and why comedian Robin Williams remains one of his heroes
“Many of our leaders just don’t know how to begin to address the problem”
In part two of our exclusive interview, Dr. Maia Hightower reveals how she’s tackling the long history of disparity in medicine with a new model
The unstoppable high flyer!
Recognized as one of the ‘Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT’, Dr. Maia Hightower, Chief Medical Information Officer for the University of Utah Health, talks digital health, data science and the challenges of leading teams at the cutting edge
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January 2022
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March 2021
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AI Champions Connect
23 February 2021
Indepth focus on the big issues
The neuro nightmare legacy of COVID-19
How a Canadian research team are using machine learning and EEG to study the neuro-invasive nature of COVID-19
The future of neurosciences and cognitive architecture
Anthony Chang looks forward to the next paradigm in AI in medicine: Neuroscience-inspired integrated cognitive architecture
How AI can predict suicide before it’s too late
Dr. John Frownfelter, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at Jvion reveals how AI is set to play a crucial role in America’s impending mental health crisis
Bringing augmented intelligence to mental health care
How an augmented intelligence mental telehealth app enables clinicians to interpret unconscious tacit behavioral and emotional intelligence
The dawn of a new AI
Khai Pham, CEO of ThinkingNode Life Science believes the next wave of AI will leverage both data and knowledge, providing human-like reasoning and personalized medicine
Frank and fearless, AIMed’s columnists get to the heart of the matter
Opinion
Will AI make clinicians redundant? Just the opposite
Why Dr. Rob Brisk sees artificial intelligence as the ultimate medical recruitment tool
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Opinion
AI-enabled tech and mental health: Do the benefits outweigh the harms?
Patricia N. Mechael, co-founder and Policy Lead at HealthEnabled on the harmful biases being built into AI algorithms in mental health applications and services
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Opinion
It’s time to evaluate how AI enabled telehealth models performed in the fight against COVID-19
Dr. Naila Siddiqui Kamal, senior gynaecologist and senior lecturer, Imperial School of Medicine London, reviews how AI has tackled the challenges of the pandemic
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Opinion
“The first rule of AI-Med Club is: you must talk about AI-Med Club!”
In the first of a regular column charting his quest to become an AI-assisted physician, 19 year old Tom Murickan, AIMed’s first ever Student Ambassador, talks about his fight to establish an AI-Med Club at his high school
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Analysis
Digital Health Entrepreneurship - Sharon Wulfovich, Arlen Meyers
"Contains content that would be difficult if not impossible to find elsewhere. One of the best, if not the best, volume in this series"
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Book Reviews
The Ethical Algorithm – Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth
"In a growing number of books on algorithms and inherent flaws, this lucid and insightful volume rises above the others"
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