Jan 11, 2019

AI Health Frontier - Issue 6

By Florent Geerts • Issue #6 • View online

“As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people’s lives.”

– Fei-Fei Li, Professor Department of Computer Science at Stanford University

Many of the articles featured in the AI Health Frontier are about how AI technology can outperform (or perform on par with) humans in skills and experience. Even in this issue, we’ll see how AI can diagnose epilepsy and intracranial hemorrhage.

But what’s often overlooked, is how AI cannot only outperform human capabilities, but add value in a truly new way. Like ‘DeepRay’, which is able to sharpen images to an extent that it could potentially outperform the human eye. Or Nvidia, whose technology is able to create ‘fake faces’ using AI, which are indistinguishable from real faces.

Still, what’s most interesting is not what we can do today, it’s the potential for tomorrow. I wish all of you the best in 2019 and I’m excited to together see what AI will bring us.

-Florent

DeepRay’s use of AI technology makes it better than the human eye

DeepRay, working with artificial intelligence, can produce sharper and much less distorted images from pictures that have been damaged or had elements obscured. With potential applications for cars and medical imaging, the outlook for DeepRay is promising.

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Artificial Intelligence Deep Learning Can Learn to Diagnose Epilepsy

Benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECT) is one of the most common types of epilepsy in children. BECT accounts for as many as 15% to 25% of pediatric epilepsy cases in children aged 4 to 13 years old. A new AI model from Georgia State University was able to screen patients for BECT with 90% accuracy (versus an estimated 80% of doctors)

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Artificial intelligence system learns to diagnose, classify intracranial hemorrhage

A team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Radiology has developed a system using artificial intelligence to quickly diagnose and classify brain hemorrhages and to provide the basis of its decisions from relatively small image datasets.

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Artificial Intelligence Helps Doctors Predict When Patients Will Die

Though the AI tool isn’t designed to predict a specific time of death — it doesn’t give a precise number of months or years — the predictive analytics model identifies patients who have a high probability of dying in three to 12 months, potentially helping to remove some uncertainty for patients that are terminally ill.

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Thinking outside the box and outside the tumor to detect lung cancer

Ohio researchers pioneer a new computer imaging method to detect the likelihood of cancer based on changes in blood vessels and regions outside tumor.

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Interesting stuff in the world of AI

These faces show how far AI image generation has advanced in just four years

Developments in artificial intelligence move at a startling pace — so much so that it’s often difficult to keep track. But one area where progress is as plain as the nose on your AI-generated face is the use of neural networks to create fake images. In brief: we’re getting scarily good at it.

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The future of Artificial Intelligence in Africa: A joint responsibility

Artificial Intelligence is not only relevant to developed countries, but even more so for developing countries. While the African continent sees a number of innovative uses of Artificial Intelligence, more can be done to guarantee access to information and knowledge through AI.

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The Most Amazing Artificial Intelligence Milestones So Far

Artificial Intelligence is the hot topic of the moment in technology, and the driving force behind most of the big technological breakthroughs of recent years. In fact, with all of the breathless hype we hear about it today, it’s easy to forget that AI isn’t anything all that new, with its roots going back to 1637.

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By Florent Geerts

The AI Health Frontier covers the latest news on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, with a special emphasis on its use in developing markets.

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