Google has opened its first African-based AI lab in Accra, Ghana, CNN reported April 15.

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a method for streamlining electronic medical record (EMR) data entry using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transfer learning, according to a paper published April 12 in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

An AI agent developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology automatically generates natural language explanations in real-time to explain the motivations behind its actions, ideally allowing those who aren’t experts in the field to interact with AI tools more confidently.

Some 33.3% of cancer patients add their own alternative treatment regimen to whatever conventional cancer care they’re receiving—and almost 30% of those don’t tell their doctors they’re doing so.

As precision medicine transforms disease treatment into a patient-by-patient art and science, AI is poised to help quickly identify or even predict genetic mutations, pointing the way to highly targeted therapies.

Omega Medical Imaging’s FluoroShield gained FDA clearance this month, becoming the first AI-enabled radiation reduction technology to hit the market.

The majority of recent journal studies evaluating the performance of AI algorithms failed to adequately validate test results, according to a meta-analysis published in the Korean Journal of Radiology, meaning most of that research can only serve as proof-of-concept and might not translate into clinical performance.

AI is poised to make a sizable impact on healthcare this year, but we’ll likely see the greatest dent in the areas of medical imaging, diagnostics and suicide risk prediction, according to data presented at the Partners HealthCare World Medical Innovation Forum in Boston.