by Bruce Brown | January 14, 2020 | Medical
Machine learning powers many new diagnostic technologies, but AI doesn’t have a total lock on medical advances. Engineers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) developed a contact lens wearable that can diagnose diabetes and treat diabetic...
by Bruce Brown | January 13, 2020 | Medical
Evidence continues to pile up supporting the promise of artificial intelligence in diagnosing medical issues. We’ve written about numerous studies in which machine learning proved equal to or better than physicians diagnosticians. Researchers at Heidelberg...
by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2019 | General News, Medical
Breast cancer screening for women is absolutely essential, One in eight women in the U.S. will have breast cancer in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. What’s more, the breast cancer incidence rates have increased by 0.3% annually in...
by Bruce Brown | December 27, 2019 | Medical
Early detection and diagnosis can have a huge impact on the treatment outcomes for many diseases and medical conditions. Epilepsy is a catch-all term for a number of conditions with abnormal electrical activity in the brain that can lead to seizures. According to the...
by Bruce Brown | December 23, 2019 | Medical
This time it’s the software. We’ve written numerous times about Eko’s Duo digital stethoscope. Last week the FDA granted Breakthrough Device status to the artificial intelligence algorithm designed to detect heart failure. The designation is granted...
by Bruce Brown | December 20, 2019 | Medical
Deep learning neural networks now offer the best hope for detecting breast cancer. The latest CDC study reports about 247,200 new diagnoses of breast cancer in women and men and nearly 41,500 fatalities every year. Previously, we wrote about work by a research team...
