Science
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.
Radiology
Tech & Society
AI Enters the Radiology Department: ChestLink, an AI X-Ray Tool Approved by European Officials
The European Union approved for clinical use an AI system that recognizes normal chest X-rays. ChestLink is the first autonomous computer vision system to earn the European Economic Area’s CE mark for medical devices...
Tech & Society
Insurance Coverage for AI: Medicare covers AI stroke detection.
The U.S. government’s largest national health insurance plan will pay for hospital use of a deep learning model, building momentum for AI to become an integral part of the doctor’s toolkit.
Tech & Society
Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.
Science
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.
Machine Learning Research
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.
Machine Learning Research
Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.
The pandemic has pushed hospitals to their limits. A new machine learning system could help doctors make sure the most severe cases get timely, appropriate care.
Tech & Society
Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.
U.S. government approval of medical AI products is on the upswing — but information about how such systems were built is largely unavailable. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a a plethora of AI-driven medical systems.
Tech & Society
Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.
A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.
Tech & Society
Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.
AI accelerated the search for a coronavirus vaccine, detected Covid-19 cases, and otherwise softened the pandemic’s blow. Machine learning researchers worldwide scrambled to harness the technology against the coronavirus.
Machine Learning Research
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.
Tech & Society
Unfair Outcomes Destroy Trust: What could cause widespread backlash against AI?
Will AI that discriminates based on race, gender, or economic status undermine the public’s confidence in the technology? Seduced by the promise of cost savings and data-driven decision making, organizations will deploy biased systems that end up doing real-world damage.