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Early Detection for Pancreatic Cancer: A neural network shows remarkable accuracy in forecasting risk of pancreatic cancer.
Medicine

Early Detection for Pancreatic Cancer: A neural network shows remarkable accuracy in forecasting risk of pancreatic cancer.

A neural network detected early signs of pancreatic cancer more effectively than doctors who used the usual risk-assessment criteria. Researchers at MIT and oncologists at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston...
Deep Learning Discovers Antibiotics: Researchers used neural networks to find a new class of antibiotics.
Medicine

Deep Learning Discovers Antibiotics: Researchers used neural networks to find a new class of antibiotics.

Biologists used neural networks to find a new class of antibiotics. Researchers at MIT and Harvard trained models to screen chemical compounds for those that kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the deadliest among bacteria that have...
Sharper Vision for Cancer: An AI-powered microscope that helps pathologists detect cancer
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Sharper Vision for Cancer: An AI-powered microscope that helps pathologists detect cancer

A microscope enhanced with augmented reality is helping pathologists recognize cancerous tissue. The United States Department of Defense is using microscopes that use machine learning models based on research from Google to detect cancers.
Chart showing the number of AI/ML devices approved by FDA by year from 2012 to 2023
Medicine

Doctors Wary of Medical AI Devices: U.S. regulatory system criticized for approving AI medical devices without transparency.

The United States’ regulatory regime may not be clear or flexible enough to ensure the safety of AI-powered medical devices. Physicians and other health professionals believe that U.S. regulators have approved AI-powered medical products without proper oversight or disclosure.
The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.
Medicine

The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.

Large language models may help psychiatrists resolve unanswered questions about mental illness. Researchers from University College London, Beijing Normal University, and Lisbon’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown used a large language model to...
Surgeons performing brain surgery
Medicine

Guiding the Scalpel: Researchers trained neural networks to assist brain surgeons' real-time tumor removal decisions.

A neural network helped brain surgeons decide how much healthy tissue to cut out when removing tumors — while the patients were on the operating table.
Rigorous Trial: AI matches humans in breast cancer diagnosis.
Medicine

Rigorous Trial: AI matches humans in breast cancer diagnosis.

A deep learning system detected breast cancer in mammograms as well as experienced radiologists, according to a landmark study.
Results from a poll by Pew Research Center
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What Americans Want From AI: Pew survey asks 11,000 Americans about AI.

Adults in the United States tend to view AI’s medical applications favorably but are leery of text and image generation. Pew Research Center polled 11,004 U.S. adults for their opinions of AI in science, healthcare, and media.
Different illustration showing the application of PCA to color populations
Medicine

PCA Raises Red Flags: Principal component analysis can negatively impact science.

Principal component analysis is a key machine learning technique for reducing the number of dimensions in a dataset, but new research shows that its output can be inconsistent and unreliable.
Portrait photograph of Been Kim
Medicine

Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability

It’s an exciting time for AI, with fascinating advances in generated media and many other applications, some even in science and medicine. Some folks may dream about what more AI can create and how much bigger models we may engineer.
Dozens of toxic barrels on a road and a witch behind
Medicine

Foundations of Evil: The Fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction Designed by AI

A growing number of AI models can be put to purposes their designers didn’t envision. Does that include heinous deeds?
Doctor checking a monitor inside an OR
Medicine

New Clarity on Rules for Medical AI: FDA Guidance on AI Medical Devices for 2022

The United States paved the way to regulate AI systems in healthcare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) interpreted existing rules that govern health-related software to include some machine learning algorithms.
China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030
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China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030

China’s investment in AI business, infrastructure, and research could pay off big over the next decade.
Animated charts show how scientists misuse machine learning.
Medicine

Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?

A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.
Animated graphs and maps show global hiring trends for AI jobs in the pharma industry.
Medicine

AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever

Pharmaceutical companies in several countries are hiring machine learning engineers at increasing rates.
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