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Inkrypt and Translo Partner on Blockchain-Based, Secure, Shareable Healthcare Data (Interview)
Last month, two startups out of Harvard Innovation Labs announced a partnership to enable patient-controlled sharing of biomedical data from a decentralized platform. The underlying system is provided by Inkrypt, a privacy-centric decentralized...
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NYU and Facebook Release Database to Teach AI to Read MRI Scans
Imaging scans, such as those taken using MRI machines and CT scanners, are hot targets for artificial intelligence research. Improving how well and how fast radiologists can spot lesions and other tissue characteristics can significantly improve...
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Nanopore Sensor Exploits Artificial Intelligence for Specific Virus Detection
Researchers at Osaka University in Japan have developed a nanopore sensor to detect single influenza viral particles in a biological sample. The researchers used artificial intelligence to work out the “hallmarks” of the virus, which allowed...
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Amazon Comprehend Medical Understands Free-Form Clinical Text
Amazon, not content with disrupting retail, distribution, computing, publishing, grocery shopping, and other spheres of business, is now turning its attention to medicine. It has recently announced the launch of its own brand of consumer medical...
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Artificial Intelligence Diagnoses Heart Murmurs Better Than Expert Cardiologists
At the just concluded American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2018 in Chicago, Eko, the makers of popular digital stethoscopes, showed off a neural network AI algorithm that is able to detect murmurs better than a group of...
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Barco's New 27" 4K Surgical Monitor
Barco is releasing a new 4K surgical monitor that's designed to give clinicians a high fidelity live image during interventional procedures. The Barco MDSC-8427 has a 27” screen, providing a new, larger size over common 24" and 26"...
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Machine-Learning Can Help Anesthesiologists Foresee Complications
During surgeries, anesthesiologists must monitor the vital signs of patients and administer the proper doses of anesthesia at the right times. While managing these responsibilities in a high-pressure situation, it can be difficult to anticipate...
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Automated System Rates Breast Density on Mammograms
Nearly half of women have dense breasts, a risk factor for breast cancer. For proper screening, spotting dense breast tissue is important, as it can hide the presence of tumors. Currently, dense tissue is identified by radiologists viewing...
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Researchers Use Novel Machine Learning Strategy to Accelerate Brain-Computer Interface Training
Brain-computer interfaces are typically systems which measure neural activity and convert it into artificial output. These systems have shown great potential for assisted movement in patients with motor impairments. The interfaces typically work...
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