Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
Medicine

Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.

AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.

June 2, 20212 min read
Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
Medicine

Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.

AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.

June 2, 20212 min read
What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.
Medicine

What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.

Transformer models trained on sequences of amino acids that form proteins have had success classifying and generating viable sequences. New research shows that they also capture information about protein structure.

June 2, 20212 min read
What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.
Medicine

What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.

Transformer models trained on sequences of amino acids that form proteins have had success classifying and generating viable sequences. New research shows that they also capture information about protein structure.

June 2, 20212 min read
Boosting Biomedicine: The NIH's Bridge2AI program will fund new health datasets.
Medicine

Boosting Biomedicine: The NIH's Bridge2AI program will fund new health datasets.

The U.S. government aims to turbocharge biomedical AI research. The National Institutes of Health, which invests $41.7 billion annually in medical research, announced a program called Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) to promote machine learning in human biology and medicine.

April 28, 20211 min read
Boosting Biomedicine: The NIH's Bridge2AI program will fund new health datasets.
Medicine

Boosting Biomedicine: The NIH's Bridge2AI program will fund new health datasets.

The U.S. government aims to turbocharge biomedical AI research. The National Institutes of Health, which invests $41.7 billion annually in medical research, announced a program called Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) to promote machine learning in human biology and medicine.

April 28, 20211 min read
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
Medicine

Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family

Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.

April 14, 20212 min read
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
Medicine

Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family

Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.

April 14, 20212 min read
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
Medicine

Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.

Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.

April 7, 20211 min read
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
Medicine

Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.

Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.

April 7, 20211 min read
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
Medicine

Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.

When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.

March 31, 20212 min read
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
Medicine

Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.

When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.

March 31, 20212 min read
Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.
Medicine

Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.

Many medical drugs work by modulating the body’s production of specific proteins. Recent research aimed to predict this activity, enabling researchers to identify drugs that might counteract the effects of Covid-19.

March 17, 20212 min read
Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.
Medicine

Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.

Many medical drugs work by modulating the body’s production of specific proteins. Recent research aimed to predict this activity, enabling researchers to identify drugs that might counteract the effects of Covid-19.

March 17, 20212 min read
ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.
Medicine

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

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