Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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AI hurts population health status when it’s used to longitudinally hook people on porn

The rate of harms to the mental and physical health of individuals who frequently use pornography is accelerating, and AI is playing a key role in driving porn addiction as well as “escalation to more violent material.”

Deep learning uncovers visual, neural learning differences between children and adults

Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra famously stated that “You can observe a lot just by watching.” New research shows just how right he was.

AI helps push medical gear from the past into the digital present, future

Researchers have combined AI with a common camera and a laptop computer to virtually modernize older-tech pumps and monitors positioned at patients’ bedsides.

Opportunities galore for those who would build Alzheimer’s caregivers a better app

The field of mHealth applications to assist nonprofessional caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients is thin, weak and in need of innovators. 

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Will virtual physicals augment yearly wellness visits—or replace them?

If COVID put telemedicine’s pedal to the metal, it was only speeding up evolutionary change fueled by advances in technology prior to 2020.

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AI combines with electricity to juice neuroscience

Mayo Clinic researchers have demonstrated an AI-based system for untangling the meandering routes taken by electric stimulation pulses delivered to a single region of the brain.

Pediatric patients engaged in VR much less troubled by pain

Virtual reality was highly effective at distracting young patients experiencing physical pain in a recent randomized trial. 

Treatable tumor models grown in the lab

The bioprinted replicas can preview a given tumor’s reaction to specific therapies and combinations thereof.

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