Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

Google’s DeepMind AI system IDs 50 eye diseases, explains choices

An artificial intelligence (AI) software designed by Google DeepMind and U.K. physicians identified diseases on optical coherence tomography scans and made the correct referral choice in 94 percent of cases, according to a recent Nature Medicine report.

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MIT uses reinforced learning to reduce toxic doses for cancer patients

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a machine-learning technique that reduces the toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy doses for patients with the most aggressive form of brain cancer.

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AI diagnoses neurological diseases on CT in 1.2 seconds

An artificial intelligence (AI) platform created at Mount Sinai Health System in New York can accurately read a CT scan and diagnose a neurological illness, such as stroke in 1.2 seconds—outperforming its human counterpart.

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1st focused ultrasound US study to open blood-brain barrier will help deliver glioblastoma drugs

In the first-of-its-kind FDA-approved study, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine are using MRI-guided focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier to help deliver drugs for patients with glioblastoma.

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UC Irvine launches new AI center for diagnostic medicine, imaging

The center will serve as a common space for University of California, Irvine (UCI) faculty, physicians and researchers to collaborate on translating artificial intelligence (AI)-based concepts into clinical tools to improve all aspects of healthcare.

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AI predicts depression, bipolar medication response with 92% accuracy

A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm developed by researchers from the Lawson Health Research Institute in Ontario, Canada and The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico, could help predict whether a patient will successfully respond to medication for a mood disorder.  

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Novel preclinical MRI coil produces images with 3 times the resolution

A team of Russian researchers has developed a novel MRI coil capable of producing images with three times the resolution of commercial varieties, according to a recent NMR in Biomedicine study.

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Canon Medical Research Europe awarded $180K to develop AI cancer imaging tool

Canon Medical Research Europe, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was awarded $180,000 to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical imaging technology prototype that can recognize, assess and measure asbestos-related cancer tumors, according to a report published Aug. 6 by Scottish Business Insider.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.