By John Cassidy and Harry Clifford Due to an explosion in machine learning and genomics research, coupled with the widespread availability of compute power through services such as Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure, multiple startups have been founded to help bridge the gap between genomics, medici
The deadline for registration to the AIMed Critical Care Datathon, held at Imperial College London is now a few days away there are limited places left for this free event. Next Monday, September 3rd, will be the closing date for registrations for the datathon, which is sponsored by Google Cloud, bu
A digital NHS (National Health Service) could be one of the most profound healthcare revolutions in history. The UK's NHS sees 1,000,000 patients every 36 hours and has 1,205,949 employees, as published by NHS Digital. It is already one of the best healthcare services anywhere in the world, providin
The UK's National Health Service runs an innovative scheme to empower working clinicians with the technical and business know-how of entrepreneurs from the cutting-edge business world. The NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs Programme is equipping over 370 clinicians with skills, knowledge and experience fro
For women, breast cancer is a threatening reality. In fact, one in eight will develop invasive breast cancer at some point during her lifetime, according to Breastcancer.org. With early detection and progressive treatments, however, two-thirds of women have the potential to triumph over breast cance
Despite early resistance, AI has the ability to be a game changer in the breast imaging sector – from cost savings to improving health outcomes - at a time when Accenture estimates clinical health AI applications will create $150 billion annual savings for the United States healthcare economy by 202
By John Cassidy and Harry Clifford As technologies become ever more sophisticated, the amount of data they produce gets richer: the same is true for genomic data. Whilst the first genome wide association studies (GWAS) relied on a finite number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across a larg
What are CNNs? The current “best” algorithm for visual pattern recognition is a convolutional neural network (CNN). CNNs were developed from perceptrons, vector-mapping algorithms in turn inspired by associative learning of the brain, and the idea of “integrate and fire” neurons. Much like the first
Words: John Davies, Healthcare Lead, Public Sector, Amazon Web Services. PIcture credit: Chris Potter Cloud has become the new normal as companies of every size are now deploying new applications to the cloud by default, and looking to migrate as many of their existing applications as they can as qu