More Data for Medical AI: AI recognizes medical scans without iodine dye.
Medicine

More Data for Medical AI: AI recognizes medical scans without iodine dye.

Convolutional neural networks are good at recognizing disease symptoms in medical scans of patients who were injected with iodine-based dye, that makes their organs more visible. But some patients can’t take the dye. Now synthetic scans from a GAN are helping CNNs learn to analyze undyed images.

September 30, 20202 min read
U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.
Medicine

U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.

The White House called for new funding for AI research including a constellation of research centers. Nonetheless, the U.S. government’s annual spending on the technology still would lag behind that of several other...

September 2, 20202 min read
U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.
Medicine

U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.

The White House called for new funding for AI research including a constellation of research centers. Nonetheless, the U.S. government’s annual spending on the technology still would lag behind that of several other...

September 2, 20202 min read
AI Steps Up: This prosthetic leg uses AI to learn a human-like stride.
Medicine

AI Steps Up: This prosthetic leg uses AI to learn a human-like stride.

A prosthetic leg that learns from the user’s motion could help amputees walk more naturally. Researchers from the University of Utah designed a robotic leg that uses machine learning to generate a human-like stride.

August 5, 20202 min read
AI Steps Up: This prosthetic leg uses AI to learn a human-like stride.
Medicine

AI Steps Up: This prosthetic leg uses AI to learn a human-like stride.

A prosthetic leg that learns from the user’s motion could help amputees walk more naturally. Researchers from the University of Utah designed a robotic leg that uses machine learning to generate a human-like stride.

August 5, 20202 min read
Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid
Medicine

Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid

Neural networks are famously bad at interpreting input that falls outside the training set’s distribution, so it’s not surprising that some models are certain that cat pictures show symptoms of Covid-19. A new approach won’t mistakenly condemn your feline to a quarantine.

August 5, 20202 min read
Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid
Medicine

Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid

Neural networks are famously bad at interpreting input that falls outside the training set’s distribution, so it’s not surprising that some models are certain that cat pictures show symptoms of Covid-19. A new approach won’t mistakenly condemn your feline to a quarantine.

August 5, 20202 min read
AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid
Medicine

AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid

A new report details the role of AI in China’s effort to fight the coronavirus. Researchers at Synced, a China-based AI publication, describe how nearly 90 machine learning products have contributed to the country’s pandemic response.

July 29, 20201 min read
AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid
Medicine

AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid

A new report details the role of AI in China’s effort to fight the coronavirus. Researchers at Synced, a China-based AI publication, describe how nearly 90 machine learning products have contributed to the country’s pandemic response.

July 29, 20201 min read
AI in Regions Rich and Poor: How companies in Africa and the Middle East use AI
Medicine

AI in Regions Rich and Poor: How companies in Africa and the Middle East use AI

Companies in Africa and the Middle East are building AI capacity in very different ways, a new study found. AI is growing fast in both regions despite shortages of talent and data.

July 22, 20201 min read
AI in Regions Rich and Poor: How companies in Africa and the Middle East use AI
Medicine

AI in Regions Rich and Poor: How companies in Africa and the Middle East use AI

Companies in Africa and the Middle East are building AI capacity in very different ways, a new study found. AI is growing fast in both regions despite shortages of talent and data.

July 22, 20201 min read
Seeing Straight at Any Rotation: Dense Steerable Filter CNN (DSF-CNN) identifies rotated images.
Medicine

Seeing Straight at Any Rotation: Dense Steerable Filter CNN (DSF-CNN) identifies rotated images.

A cat rotated by any number of degrees is still a cat. It takes a lot of rotated training images to teach convolutional filters this simple fact. A new filter design has this common-sense knowledge built-in.

July 8, 20202 min read
Seeing Straight at Any Rotation: Dense Steerable Filter CNN (DSF-CNN) identifies rotated images.
Medicine

Seeing Straight at Any Rotation: Dense Steerable Filter CNN (DSF-CNN) identifies rotated images.

A cat rotated by any number of degrees is still a cat. It takes a lot of rotated training images to teach convolutional filters this simple fact. A new filter design has this common-sense knowledge built-in.

July 8, 20202 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
Medicine

Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

May 20, 20202 min read
Crowdsourcing a Cure: Covid Moonshot, the crowdsourced effort to find a cure
Medicine

Crowdsourcing a Cure: Covid Moonshot, the crowdsourced effort to find a cure

Researchers are drawing up blueprints for drugs to fight Covid-19. Machine learning is identifying those most likely to be effective. Covid Moonshot, an international group of scientists in academia and industry, is crowdsourcing designs for molecules with potential to thwart the coronavirus.

May 20, 20201 min read

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