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. 

Storytelling robots send parents of young children into AI’s ‘uncanny valley’

Many parents would let their children be read to by robots as long as the device didn’t project a little too much lifelikeness.

New tools, techniques emerge to extend AI’s adaptability in cloud-based drug discovery

Because they learn as they go, machine learning models for drug discovery have to be continuously re-trained for changing conditions in drug production processes.

AI teams with fMRI to advance the state of deep brain stimulation

The system hit 88% accuracy at optimizing stimulation settings, as confirmed by brain-response patterns on neuroimaging as well as visibly observable symptom improvement in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

2-way BCI gives greater limb control to people with paralysis

Bioengineers have developed a brain-computer interface that replicates the sense of touch, allowing a robotic arm and hand to not only receive command signals from the brain but also send back signals of stimulation.

International group calls for more nursing in healthcare AI—and vice versa

The profession of nursing is something of a sleeping giant within the global village of healthcare AI, according to an interdisciplinary collaborative of healthcare workers from North America and Europe.

Injectable ultrasound chip wirelessly monitors, treats preclinical patients

Biomedical and electrical engineers have invented a probe so small it must be inserted hypodermically yet can monitor vital signs and even stimulate tissue for therapeutic purposes.

Total knee AI/AR cleared for sales in the US

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to a French startup for surgery software that combines AI with augmented reality and computer vision.

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Mount Sinai to offer AI and emerging tech PhD program

In a sign that AI is becoming all the more critical to healthcare, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has a new PhD concentration in AI and emerging technology.

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The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”