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...
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...
What If Patients Reject Wearables and AI?

What If Patients Reject Wearables and AI?

French researchers at two Paris institutions recently published the results of an investigation of patients’ perceptions of wearable biometric monitoring devices (BMDs) and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare in npr Digital Medicine. The researchers from...
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...
Optimize Your Coffee Intake with Help from AI

Optimize Your Coffee Intake with Help from AI

If you’ve ever regretted miscalculating your coffee consumption, now you can let AI be your guide. Researchers from two U.S. military organizations developed an algorithm to predict alertness levels based on caffeine intake amount and timing. Scientists from the...