AI Calls Cause of Death from Verbal Autopsies

AI Calls Cause of Death from Verbal Autopsies

Sixty million people die each year, most with no known cause of death (CoD). According to a 2012 report by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, two-thirds of the deaths each year have no recorded CoD. The highest ratios of...
Smart Devices Detect Sounds of Cardiac Arrest

Smart Devices Detect Sounds of Cardiac Arrest

Wearable tech with sensors that monitor and report biometric data can help assess your current health, but devices with algorithms that detect life-threatening conditions could potentially save your life. The iBeat smartwatch app monitors heart activity to alert to...
Obstacles to Machine Learning in Healthcare

Obstacles to Machine Learning in Healthcare

In 1989’s film Field of Dreams, the character Shoeless Joe Jackson told Ray Kinsella, “If you build it, he will come.” That sentiment worked in the movie but doesn’t always carry over in real life, particularly in medical and health technology....
MIT: Machine Learning Predicts Drug Approvals

MIT: Machine Learning Predicts Drug Approvals

Agencies, universities, and private companies increasingly turn to machine learning to speed up and improve the predictive accuracy of healthcare technology testing. A group of more than 30 top hospitals and research institutions in Europe and the U.S. formed the...
Machine Learning Predicts Psychosis From Words

Machine Learning Predicts Psychosis From Words

During the past two years, we’ve written about a range of machine learning applications in medicine. Machine learning’ analyzes vast quantities of data rapidly in search of predictive relationships. Machine learning becomes more effective as it receives...