AI tool set to improve cancer survival rates
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in the UK will become the first in the world to use an AI tool to speed up cancer treatment
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University of Pisa uses Intel Optane to reduce MRI scanning times
Testing indicates that Intel® Optane™ technology can reduce MRI scanning times from 40 minutes to 2 minutes
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Jonathan – Medical Imaging and Biomedical Diagnostics
Jonathan Lukeoff
Background/problem
2 years ago, Jaime Olmos and I published a paper arguing that diagnostic medical radiation was over
utilized and more harmful than clinicians considered. We documented that the literature backed us
up, but that no method had been utilized to
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Jenae Vancura – Medical Imaging and Biomedical Diagnostics
Jenae Vancura
2019-11-04 08:01:47 (GMT) This past year during a shadowing experience in neurosurgery, a family came in for a consult regarding lesions that were discovered in their son’s brain stem. To everyones surprise, when we sat down to look at the follow-up MRI from that mo
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Devika – Medical Imaging and Biomedical Diagnostics
Devika Rajan
MIA, known as the Medical Illustration Aid, is a voice activated “smart board” that presents a 3D rotatable image used to illustrate diagnoses and procedures. The board is a screen mounted onto the wall in the clinic room and includes a stylus with a microphone on on
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Amrit – Medical Imaging and Biomedical Diagnostics
Amrit Virdee
Apart from walking into a pharmacy and asking a Pharmacist, current methods for identifying prescription medications involve using various prescription medication recognition portals such as PillBox (https://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/pillimage/search.php), WebMD Pill Identifier (https://w
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Applications of transfer-learning to reduce rare disease data disparities
Vidal Arroyo
Background and Problem: Currently, 400 million people worldwide have a rare disease. While advances in data collection and processing have resulted in a medical big data revolution, these advances have failed to affect the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases due
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Assessing Model Performance on Data with Extreme Class Imbalance – The Case of An ED Triage Model for Severe Sepsis at CHOC Children’s
Tatiana Moreno
It is well known that the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve is misleading in measuring model performance in cases of extreme class imbalance. Recommendations have been made to use alternate performance metrics such as the area under the precisio
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Decision Support and Hospital Monitoring (Siriman Konare)
Siriman Konare
2019-11-21 14:51:41 (GMT) The importance of indoor air quality in health care facilities is a growing concern, resulting from changing care practices, aging housing stock and the presence of frail people and staff.
Environmental approaches don’t exist in the 40
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