Industry researchers in medical AI have demonstrated a “causal reasoning” algorithm whose diagnostic accuracy would place it among the top 25% of primary care doctors in the U.K. 

It has a ways to go in the field, but AI promises to modernize plastic surgery along both its main branches, cosmetic and reconstructive.

Concepts from the art and science of deep learning for medical practice can inform those employed in the art and science of medical education.

Someone had to come right out and ask. Six researchers representing four medical specialties have done so, weighing the odds by reviewing a representative sample of the literature.

If it pans out at real-world dinner tables, a freshly cooked-up AI system will soon be counting calories and sniffing out macronutrients just by gobbling up images of meals.

In the late 1700s the English social theorist Jeremy Bentham sketched out a prison in which a single guard could control hundreds of inmates. The trick was to let the men know they could be seen 24/7 while the guard on duty was hidden from their view.  

Medical AI may be stuck in a bind familiar to many jobseekers: If you don’t have the hands-on experience, you can’t get the job. If you don’t have the job, you can’t get the hands-on experience.

Pandemic forecasting models aren’t hard to find of late, but a new one combines epidemiological expertise from a top-three medical school with AI knowhow from one of big tech’s biggest.

A generation gap may be emerging within the gold rush of computer scientists and software developers racing to weaponize AI for the fight against COVID-19.

A company with a name that sounds like a book title has formed to beat back COVID and future health crises by tapping the powers of AI.