Tag: AI

  • Deep learning mammography model detects breast cancer up to five years in advance

    Deep learning mammography model detects breast cancer up to five years in advance

    MIT CSAIL professor Regina Barzilay and Harvard/MGH professor Constance Lehman  have developed a deep learning model that can predict breast cancer, from a mammogram, up to five years in the future. The model learned subtle breast tissue patterns that lead to malignant tumors from mammograms and known outcomes of 90,000 MGH patients. The goal is…

  • Study: AI accurately predicts childhood disease from health records

    Study: AI accurately predicts childhood disease from health records

    Xia Huimin and Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center researchers used AI to read 1.36 million pediatric health records, and diagnosed disease as accurately as doctors, according to a recent study. Common childhood diseases were detected after processing symptoms, medical history and other clinical data from this massive sample.  The goal is the diagnosis of complex…

  • Alzheimer’s detected by AI 6 years before diagnosis

    Alzheimer’s detected by AI 6 years before diagnosis

    In a recent study, Jae Ho Sohn and UCSD colleagues used an AI to analyze glucose-monitoring PET scans to detect early-stage Alzheimer’s disease six years before  diagnosis. The algorithm was trained on PET scans from patients who were eventually diagnosed with  Alzheimer’s disease, MCI, or no disorder. It was able to  identify 92% of patients who…

  • AI predicts response to antipsychotic drugs, could distinguish between disorders

    AI predicts response to antipsychotic drugs, could distinguish between disorders

    Lawson Health Research Institute, Mind Research Network and Brainnetome Center researchers have developed an algorithm that analyzes brain scans to classify illness in patients with complex mood disorders and help predict their response to medication. A recent study analyzed and compared fMRI scans of those with MDD, bipolar I,  and no history of mental illness, and…

  • AI speeds MRI scans

    AI speeds MRI scans

    Facebook and NYU’s fastMRI project, led by Larry Zitnick, uses AI in an attempt to make MRI imaging 10 times faster. Neural networks will be trained to fill in missing or degraded parts of scans, turning them from low resolution into high. The goal is to significantly reduce the time patients must lie motionless inside an…

  • AI – optimized glioblastoma chemotherapy

    AI – optimized glioblastoma chemotherapy

    Pratik Shah, Gregory Yauney,  and MIT Media Lab researchers have developed an AI  model that could make glioblastoma chemotherapy regimens less toxic but still effective. It analyzes current regimens and iteratively adjusts doses to optimize treatment with the lowest possible potency and frequency toreduce tumor sizes. In simulated trials of 50 patients, the machine-learning model…