ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.
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ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.

It’s commonly assumed that models pretrained to achieve high performance on ImageNet will perform better on other visual tasks after fine-tuning. But is it always true? A new study reached surprising conclusions.

March 10, 20212 min read
Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.
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Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.

The pandemic has pushed hospitals to their limits. A new machine learning system could help doctors make sure the most severe cases get timely, appropriate care.

March 3, 20212 min read
Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.
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Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.

The pandemic has pushed hospitals to their limits. A new machine learning system could help doctors make sure the most severe cases get timely, appropriate care.

March 3, 20212 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
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How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
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How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.
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Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.

Doctors who treat breast cancer typically use a quick, inexpensive tumor-tissue stain test to diagnose the illness and a slower, more costly one to determine treatment. A new neural network could help doctors to go straight from diagnosis to treatment.

February 10, 20212 min read
Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.
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Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.

Doctors who treat breast cancer typically use a quick, inexpensive tumor-tissue stain test to diagnose the illness and a slower, more costly one to determine treatment. A new neural network could help doctors to go straight from diagnosis to treatment.

February 10, 20212 min read
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Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

February 3, 20211 min read
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Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

February 3, 20211 min read
The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.
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The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.

A pair of neural networks is helping to prioritize Covid-19 cases for contact tracing. The public health department of California’s Contra Costa County is using deep learning to sort Covid-19 cases reported via the pre-internet technology known as fax.

January 13, 20212 min read
The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.
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The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.

A pair of neural networks is helping to prioritize Covid-19 cases for contact tracing. The public health department of California’s Contra Costa County is using deep learning to sort Covid-19 cases reported via the pre-internet technology known as fax.

January 13, 20212 min read
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
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Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text

It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.

December 2, 20202 min read
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
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Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text

It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.

December 2, 20202 min read
Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.
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Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.

According to the lottery ticket hypothesis, the bigger the neural network, the more likely some of its weights are initialized to values that are well suited to learning to perform the task at hand. But just how big does it need to be?

November 4, 20202 min read
Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.
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Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.

According to the lottery ticket hypothesis, the bigger the neural network, the more likely some of its weights are initialized to values that are well suited to learning to perform the task at hand. But just how big does it need to be?

November 4, 20202 min read

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