“What we have done is use natural language processing and machine learning techniques to train this engine to recognize whether this is an outbreak of anthrax in Mongolia versus a reunion of the heavy metal band Anthrax.” Kamran Kahn, CEO, BlueDot Coronavirus, or COVID-19 (2019-nCov), started in Wuh
“Our intelligence is what makes us human, and AI is an extension of that quality.“ Dr. Yann Lecun, Professor, New York University In the spirit of the new year, here are a few of my predictions for this year for AI in medicine and healthcare (five predictions here and another five predictions will b
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut and photographer of Earthrise It is time for all of us to contrive an artificial intelligence educational agenda for all students and clinicians to have the ba
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” William Enders, Apollo 8 astronaut The AIMed 19 program launched with an Artificial Intelligence in Medicine primer with yours truly, accompanied by Vimla Patel and Ted Shortliffe, and was atten
“These are not just numbers. I want to tell the stories of each person,“ Marie Colvin, Deceased War Correspondent Pulmonary edema, heart failure, ventricular tachycardia, pulmonary hypertension, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and pneumothorax are medical terms to the data scientists (more accu
“One must forever search for answers with the utmost passion with whatever means possible.“ Dr. Richard van Praagh, Professor Emeritus, Harvard School of Medicine My recent travels led me back to a special city where I spent my younger days as a new pediatric cardiology attending: Boston. I had the
“You must unite behind the science. You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up can never ever be an option.“ Greta Thunberg, teenage climate activist The past few weeks we heard these impassioned words spoken with bravura from Greta Thunberg, the young teenager and climate a
“Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.” Neils Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel laureate I recently returned from a few meetings on machine learning in medicine and healthcare, and many abstracts and presentations were focused on the use of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC)
“It’s a 1202… What is that? Give us a reading on the 1202 Program Diagram.” Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 Commander, minutes before lunar landing We have just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing, arguably the most significant news event of this century. One relatively small but signific