Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.
Medicine

Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.

Computer vision has potential to spot cancer earlier and more accurately than human experts. A new system surpassed human accuracy in trials, but critics aren’t convinced.

January 8, 20202 min read
Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.
Medicine

Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.

Computer vision has potential to spot cancer earlier and more accurately than human experts. A new system surpassed human accuracy in trials, but critics aren’t convinced.

January 8, 20202 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Medicine

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Medicine

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read
Cracking Open Doctors’ Notes
Medicine

Cracking Open Doctors’ Notes

Weak supervision is the practice of assigning likely labels to unlabeled data using a variety of simple labeling functions. Then supervised methods can be used on top of the now-labeled data.

October 23, 20192 min read
Cracking Open Doctors’ Notes
Medicine

Cracking Open Doctors’ Notes

Weak supervision is the practice of assigning likely labels to unlabeled data using a variety of simple labeling functions. Then supervised methods can be used on top of the now-labeled data.

October 23, 20192 min read
Deep Learning Tackles Skin Ailments
Medicine

Deep Learning Tackles Skin Ailments

Skin conditions are the fourth-largest cause of nonfatal disease worldwide, but access to dermatological care is sparse. A new study shows that a neural network can do front-line diagnostic work.

October 9, 20192 min read
Hidden Findings Revealed
Medicine

Hidden Findings Revealed

Drugs undergo rigorous experimentation and clinical trials to gain regulatory approval, while dietary supplements get less scrutiny. Even when a drug study reveals an interaction with supplements, the discovery tends to receive little attention.

October 9, 20192 min read
Deep Learning Tackles Skin Ailments
Medicine

Deep Learning Tackles Skin Ailments

Skin conditions are the fourth-largest cause of nonfatal disease worldwide, but access to dermatological care is sparse. A new study shows that a neural network can do front-line diagnostic work.

October 9, 20192 min read
Hidden Findings Revealed
Medicine

Hidden Findings Revealed

Drugs undergo rigorous experimentation and clinical trials to gain regulatory approval, while dietary supplements get less scrutiny. Even when a drug study reveals an interaction with supplements, the discovery tends to receive little attention.

October 9, 20192 min read
Seeing Cancer
Medicine

Seeing Cancer

Microscopes outfitted with AI-driven augmented reality could improve the accuracy of cancer diagnoses. Google Health developed an attachment for analog microscopes that outlines signs of breast and prostate cancer in real time.

September 4, 20191 min read
Seeing Cancer
Medicine

Seeing Cancer

Microscopes outfitted with AI-driven augmented reality could improve the accuracy of cancer diagnoses. Google Health developed an attachment for analog microscopes that outlines signs of breast and prostate cancer in real time.

September 4, 20191 min read

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