AI in Medicine

Is AI still far from being fair?

Recently, two researchers – Anish Dhir and Ciarán Lee from Babylon Health, a digital health service and remote consultation platform headquartered in London had come up with a new method to mine causal relations between sets of medical data. Using quantum cryptography, the duo regard data sets as co

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A new how-to guide on setting up virtual clinics

An official launch event will be held today (11 February) as UCLPartners, an academic health science center based in central London, releases a free digital guide to encourage fellow clinicians on setting up virtual clinics. This new how-to guide, which comes in both print and animated versions, was

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The role of conversational AI in a virus outbreak

Last month, when the US confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) originated from Wuhan, China, AIMed talked about how artificial intelligence (AI) may be helpful in stopping an epidemic by maximizing on outreach effort and underpinning possible sources. About a week later, BlueD

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Will opening the AI blackbox make us over-trust AI?

At the recent AIMed webinar “Data rights in the age of machine learning”, speakers mentioned some specific challenges unique to artificial intelligence (AI); one of which is transparency. “Do we need to open the AI blackbox” and “Can AI-driven solutions remained in blackbox” were questions raised. W

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GANs in medicine

The mention of GANs or Generative Adversarial Networks may bring some of us to think of the first algorithm-generated portrait ever auctioned at Christie’s.

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Redefining drug discovery with AI

For the very first time, a new drug created solely by artificial intelligence (AI) is going into human clinical trials. Exscientia, an 60-person strong AI startup based in Oxford, UK and Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, a Japanese pharmaceutical company headquartered in Osaka are the forces behind this no

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How do we leverage big data responsibly?

The AI-Med webinar “Data rights in the age of machine learning” sponsored by Cerner, took place on 30 January 2020. Dr. Tanuj K. Gupta, Vice-President at Cerner Intelligence acted as the session’s moderator.  While Dr. Mark Hoffman, Chief Research Information Officer, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Sara

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How should we prepare for the age of quantum computing?

AIMed believes quantum computing is an area which the medical and healthcare community should look for in this new decade. As mentioned in our previous blog article, classical computers make use of electrical/optical pulses represented by 1 and 0; while quantum computers run on qubits or subatomic p

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UK is launching a new £140 million-worth AI award

Matt Hancock, UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care launched yesterday (28 January) a £140-million artificial intelligence (AI) award. Speaking at the half-day long Parliament and HealthTech Conference held in Westminster, Hancock said the award aimed to introduce life-saving initiative

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