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
Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.
Medicine

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.
Medicine

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
Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.
Medicine

Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.

U.S. government approval of medical AI products is on the upswing — but information about how such systems were built is largely unavailable. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a a plethora of AI-driven medical systems.

February 17, 20212 min read
Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.
Medicine

Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.

U.S. government approval of medical AI products is on the upswing — but information about how such systems were built is largely unavailable. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a a plethora of AI-driven medical systems.

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

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.
Medicine

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
Medicine

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
Medicine

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 Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.
Medicine

The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.

A neural network learned to read the genes of viruses as though they were text. That could enable researchers to page ahead for potentially dangerous mutations. Researchers at MIT trained a language model to predict mutations that would enable infectious viruses to become even more virulent.

January 27, 20212 min read
The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.
Medicine

The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.

A neural network learned to read the genes of viruses as though they were text. That could enable researchers to page ahead for potentially dangerous mutations. Researchers at MIT trained a language model to predict mutations that would enable infectious viruses to become even more virulent.

January 27, 20212 min read
Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.
Medicine

Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.

Can social media posts reveal early signs of mental illness? A new machine learning model shows promising results. Researchers developed a model that analyzes messages and images posted by Facebook users for indicators of psychological problems.

January 6, 20212 min read
Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.
Medicine

Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.

Can social media posts reveal early signs of mental illness? A new machine learning model shows promising results. Researchers developed a model that analyzes messages and images posted by Facebook users for indicators of psychological problems.

January 6, 20212 min read
Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices
Medicine

Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices

Look at the tip of a standard #2 pencil. Now, imagine performing over one trillion multiplication operations in the area of that pencil tip every second. This can be accomplished using today’s 7nm semiconductor technology.

December 30, 20202 min read
Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices
Medicine

Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices

Look at the tip of a standard #2 pencil. Now, imagine performing over one trillion multiplication operations in the area of that pencil tip every second. This can be accomplished using today’s 7nm semiconductor technology.

December 30, 20202 min read

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