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AI in Radiology: Beyond the images

Radiologists do not just look at images, the same for artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology. The second AIMed specialty event – AIMed Radiology concluded at Ritz-Carlton, Chicago yesterday (19 June). The one-and-a-half-day conference was held back to back with AIMed Cardiology and consisted of a

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Machine Learning case studies in Cardiology

In his presentation at AIMed Cardiology took place on Monday (17 June), Dr. Partho Sengupta, Chief, Division of Cardiology, Director of Cardiovascular Imaging, and Professor of Medicine at West Virginia University Heart & Vascular Institute, comprehensively shared how machine learning (ML) can b

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The questions we asked at AIMed Cardiology 2019

AIMed’s first specialty event – AIMed Cardiology has concluded at Ritz-Carlton, Chicago, Illinois. The one-and-a-half-day event comprised of a series of open seminars, with distinguished guests sharing their insights on various topics concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and related ne

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When technology fails to exercise wonder on women

Dr. Narmadha Kuppuswami was a medical student on her first clinical placement when an expectant patient from a remote village in India arrived at the hospital. The patient had a ruptured uterus and needed an immediate surgery. While holding her hand, the patient told Dr. Kuppuswami that she has

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AI will improve the availability of drugs but not now

Back in 2018, Luis Walker, the then seven-year-old wrote a letter to Theresa May, the prime minister of UK, requesting Orkambi, a drug which delays lung function deterioration and to lower infection risks among patients with cystic fibrosis, to be made available in the country’s National Health Serv

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Geeky Gynaecologist Glog 4: On SMART Health Ecosystems

Hello once again!  One of the buzz words often quoted and sought for in the current noise of industrial transformation is ‘Eco-Systems’. Generally, it means a complex network or interconnected system. Reflecting back the first memory I have of a connected system is the conveyor belt assembly line in

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Will a new system encourage data-sharing?

The Association of American Medical Colleges, the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and The New England Journal of Medicine had proposed a new data sharing system. One which will like individuals to the data that they had generated, in

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AMIA’s suggestions to the upcoming FDA AI Framework

This April, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, announced the steps to consider a new regulatory framework targeting at artificial intelligence (AI) driven medical devices. In the announcement, Gottlieb acknowledged the impacts of AI algorithms in providing t

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When AI becomes a better team player

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only mysterious; it is also a lone performer. The struggle which researchers face to teach AI how to play chess or to drive is not as great as teaching them the art of teamwork. Working collaboratively may be intuitive to human. Most of us do not experience diffic

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