The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have begun to recruit the 80,000 volunteer-force it requires over the summer of 2020 [1]. Earlier this year, the game’s organizing committee had planned to incorporate robots to work alongside with their human counterparts in directing guests to competing venues an

Virtual assistants are now trusted by users in a number of industries, including banking, airlines, utilities, and healthcare. Utilizing the conversational interfaces of either chat or voice, these so-called “chatbots” are quickly adding much needed support to an overstretched workforce. Problem to

How the incredible pace of growth for AI at the world’s largest meeting of radiologists has added a new layer of excitement to RSNA 2018, a famously innovative event. George Shih, M.D. is Associate Professor and Vice-Chair for Informatics in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical Colle

In the latest issue of AIMed magazine, the Japanese assistive robot roadmap article attributed the success of robotics in Japan to their traditional values of not wanting to seek help from others. Although US has a similar roadmap, the priority was more on opportunities and innovations rather than c

IBM has been sponsoring Ponemon Institute, an independent establishment conducting research on privacy, data protection and information security policy, to carry out an annual cost of a data breach study over the past 13 years. The latest finding released this July, indicated that the global average

It’s an unspoken consensus to visualize robot doctors at the mention of artificial intelligence in medicine. In reality, it’s probably like this: just three more days before you go on an overseas conference and you found yourself with a bad sore throat. You knew you have to do something about it but

Here you are, an intensive care unit pediatrician and your patient with a complicated asthmatic condition. As you administer the treatment, you can’t help but wonder how your colleagues around the country are treating other children with similar diagnosis. How do you find out? Traditionally, you may

ABSTRACT: As we approach the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, artificial intelligence (AI) is a subject of intense interest and discussion among radiologists in the U.S. and around the world, and the benefits and abilities of multi-organ image interpretation with AI will

Since our last issue of AIMed Magazine, our team at AIMed hosted an AIMed Europe meeting at the prestigious Shoreditch Hall in London. We welcomed close to 400 attendees from many countries in Europe and other countries as far as India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Israel, and even Senegal. Among the highlight