Medical Imaging

Google Uses Artificial Intelligence to Detect Breast Cancer

by Jessica Kent

An artificial intelligence model developed by Google and other entities was able to identify breast cancer in screening mammograms with greater accuracy, fewer false positives, and fewer false...

Natural Language Processing Advances Clinical Decision Making

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Providers are inundated with large amounts of data that is daunting to comb through to find actionable outcomes.  Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is frequently seen as the solution to...

Artificial Intelligence Recognizes Cancer Cells in Pathology Slides

by Jessica Kent

A software tool that leverages artificial intelligence was able to recognize cancer cells from digital pathology slides, leading to more customized treatment plans, according to a study published in...

GE Launches Program to Ease Artificial Intelligence Adoption

by Jessica Kent

GE Healthcare has launched the Edison Developer Program to accelerate artificial intelligence adoption and impact throughout the healthcare industry. The program is based on Edison, GE...

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Lung Cancer Immunotherapy Success

by Jessica Kent

An artificial intelligence algorithm was able to find previously unseen changes in patterns in CT scans and determine how well patients with lung cancer would benefit from immunotherapy, according to a...

Machine Learning Microscope Adapts Lighting to Improve Diagnosis

by Jessica Kent

Engineers at Duke University have developed a prototype microscope that adapts its lighting patterns while teaching itself the optimal settings needed to complete a given diagnostic task. In the...

NIH Using Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Stem Cell Quality

by Jessica Kent

NIH researchers used artificial intelligence to evaluate stem cell-derived “patches” of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tissue for implanting into the eyes of patients with age-related...

Machine Learning Tool Accurately Diagnoses Esophageal Cancer

by Jessica Kent

Machine learning methods could accurately identify cancerous esophagus tissue on microscopy images without the time-consuming manual data input that is required for current methods, according to a...

AI Detects Patients Most Likely to Progress to Advanced Breast Cancer

by Jessica Kent

An artificial intelligence tool could make it easier to identify which patients diagnosed with pre-malignant breast cancer are likely to progress to invasive breast cancer and might benefit from...

Machine Learning Predicts Thyroid Cancer Risk on Ultrasounds

by Jessica Kent

A machine learning algorithm was able to detect malignant thyroid nodules in ultrasounds with 77 percent accuracy, offering a fast and inexpensive way to screen for thyroid cancer, according to a study...

Partners HealthCare Invests $80M in Artificial Intelligence

by Jessica Kent

Partners HealthCare has announced the creation of two new investment funds to support translational funding in pre-clinical life sciences, artificial intelligence, and digital technology...

Radiologist, AI Combination Improves Breast Cancer Detection

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from NYU School of Medicine and the NYU Center for Data Science found that combining artificial intelligence with analysis from human radiologists significantly improved breast cancer...

New Center to Advance Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging

by Jessica Kent

UC San Francisco (UCSF) is launching the Center for Intelligent Imaging, which will advance the application of artificial intelligence tools in medical imaging. The Center for Intelligent Imaging, or...

Artificial Intelligence in Radiology Will Require Ethics, Standards

by Jessica Kent

Ethical use of artificial intelligence in radiology will require stakeholders to carefully consider how they use data, as well as how they develop and operate decision-making tools, according to a...

Artificial Intelligence System Analyzes Chest X-Rays in 10 Seconds

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare and Stanford University have built an artificial intelligence system that can detect critical findings in chest x-rays in as fast as ten seconds. The device,...

Mount Sinai Launches Medical Imaging, Artificial Intelligence Center

by Jessica Kent

Mount Sinai Health System has announced the launch of the Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII), which will leverage Mount Sinai’s imaging and nanomedicine programs to create...

Providers Use Automated Deep Learning to Develop Diagnostic Models

by Jessica Kent

Using automated deep learning tools, physicians with no coding experience were able to develop medical image diagnostic classifiers, showing that automated deep learning is a viable way to increase the...

Penn Medicine Takes a Precision Medicine Approach to Opioid Misuse

by Jessica Kent

Using a five-year, $8.9 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, psychiatry and radiology researchers from Penn Medicine will create a new Center of Excellence focused on taking a...

Machine Learning Improves Medical Eye Imaging Resolution

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have developed a machine learning algorithm that can increase the resolution of optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging...