Doctors are rigorously trained to become diagnosticians and to prescribe only the most effective treatments. It is only in the last two decades that we have also focussed on doing these tasks safely. Recent estimates see up to 10% of patients experiencing some sort of treatment related harm during e
Engineers and physicians model systems, and solve problems, differently. It takes years of study and practical experience to learn the ways each field views and navigates the world, and how these differ from the way untrained, inexperienced people think about problems and solutions. Doctors know how
Few can claim to have done as much to prepare upcoming generations of radiologists for the technological future as Elliot K. Fishman, MD. Dr Fishman is professor of radiology and oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of Diagnostic Imaging and Body CT at The Johns H
I was inspired to write this article after reading Dr. Curtis Kennedy’s feature in AIMed Magazine 01, where he shared his experience from the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Texas Children’s Hospital. I am not a Pediatric Intensive Care doctor by training. I have been trained so far as a Gen
Deep learning (DL) is the top performer in data-intensive tasks [1, 2] and thus has the potential to improve personalized, predictive, precise, and preventive health enabled by multiple state-of-the-art measurement technologies and big data. For instance, DL has been shown to surpass human performan
Google's work uncovered a way to estimate refractive error with high accuracy from retinal fundus photos using deep learning, previously unknown. This will improve the screening process for diabetic eye disease. They also have projects researching assisting pathologists in detecting cancer [1]. We s
Problem Radiologists are visual people. We're the antithesis of a hematologist - if we can't see it macroscopically, it probably doesn't exist – certainly biased, but a not entirely unreasonable opinion given the strength of current image-based diagnosis. Zeiler and Fergus’ 2014 ECCV paper Visuali
With impeccable timing in the aftermath of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data debacle, we saw the enactment of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last month with profound international repercussions as it applied to any data that belongs to an EU citizen. In addition, Google e
Photo credit - stormotion.io/ By Morris Panner, CEO, Ambra Health We share a lot of pictures - our family, our friends, our pets, and even our food. Sharing photos has become seamless and the face recognition feature offered by Facebook has put powerful algorithms in the hands of millions for free.