A.I. is Starting to Build the Healthcare of the Future

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While there is a lot of “noise” about Generative A.I. and chatbots, I wanted to circle back to A.I. in healthcare.

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Medical AI Research Center (MedARC)

Announcing the launch of the Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) announced a new open and collaborative research center dedicated to advancing the field of AI in healthcare. MedARC aims to develop large AI models, also known as foundation models, for use in medicine and to build interdisciplinary teams that can address clinical needs. 

MedARC aims to build a public community for contributions and develop foundation models for medical AI research.

• In a partnership with other researchers and medical professionals, they say they will design and launch projects that create large scale AI models for medicine, build interdisciplinary teams to address clinical needs, share models and datasets, publish results, establish best practices for reproducibility and transparency, build a public community for contributions and collaborations, guide public policies around AI development in medicine.

MedARC @MedARC_AI

Announcing the launch of the MedARC! MedARC is a novel, open, & collaborative approach to medical AI research. It was created to develop large-scale AI models for medicine & build interdisciplinary teams to address clinical needs. (1/10) medarc.ai/blog/announcem…

You can see their current projects here. The CEO is a part-time employee at Stability.AI. A 19-year old 5th-year Biomedical Engineering PhD candidate at University of California. Given that Stability.AI have ties with AWS, and we know Amazon is very interested in healthcare, Generative A.I. and more A.I. labs might intersect with the future of Healthcare.

The potential of generative AI in healthcare is immense and close to my heart. We will have a lot in this space this year fingers crossed for the good of all. - Emad Mostaque.

ChatGPT like Interfaces will Transform Healthcare in China as well.

I noticed this week as well JD.com have announced ChatJD.

JD.com have a formidable presence in Healthcare platforms. JD Health International Inc. (“the Company”) is the largest online healthcare platform in China. It is also pioneering the digitalization and transformation of the healthcare industry.

• I believe ChatJD may have relevance for the future of the Healthcare Conversational A.I. in China. While we think of JD.com as an E-commerce player, their Healthcare and financial services impact is also gaining speed.

MedPaLM

In early 2023 Google and Deepmind announced MedPaLM, that is an open-sourced large language model aligned to the medical domain.

MedPaLM addresses multiple-choice questions and questions posed by medical professionals and non-professionals through the delivery of various datasets. These datasets come from MedQA, MedMCQA, PubMedQA, LiveQA, MedicationQA, and MMLU.

This means we’ll soon have expert medical advice and knowledge in highly accessible Chatbots.

Premium Subscribers can discover dozens of articles I’ve written (more like curration) on A.I. at the intersection of healthcare. You can find some of these in this list:

• If you haven’t been covering my work for long, you might know realize how passionate I am about covering A.I. in healthcare, especially in my “Benefactor” part of the magazine.

A Look into My Archives on A.I. in Healthcare (2022 articles)

Do you care about the A.I. for good movement? I most recently covered in the A.I. intersection of Healthcare the following topics:

• 🤯 A.I. Can Help Detect Brain Tumor Boundaries ~ HERE.

• Google AI and Breast Cancer Making Progress ~ HERE.

• Artificial Intelligence will enable Early Autism Detection ~ HERE.

• AI and the Future of Sepsis ~ HERE.

• A.I. in Alzheimer’s disease in 2022 ~ HERE.

• Are A.I. Eye Checks the New Heart Disease Warning Test? ~ HERE.

• Why A.I. in Healthcare is a New Paradigm ~ HERE.

• AI Detects Tuberculosis from X-rays ~ HERE.

• AI and Drug Overdose Deaths ~ HERE.

• AI Has the Potential to Transform Healthcare ~ HERE.

• AI can reveal new cell biology ~ HERE.

• AI Evolving our Understanding of the Human Gut ~ HERE.

• Artificial Intelligence is improving the use of Hearing Aids ! ~ HERE.

• Hospitals are turning to AI to Shorten Hospital Stays ~ HERE.

• A.I. Can Now Predict Tumor Regrowth in Cancer Patients ~ HERE.

• Artificial Intelligence in Autism Detection ~ HERE.

• The Future of A.I. in Healthcare. ~ HERE.

• Artificial Intelligence is Taking on Parkinson's Disease. ~HERE.

• Artificial Intelligence Helps Cut Miss Rate of Colorectal Polyps. ~ HERE.

• A.I. Advances in Treatment Of Spinal Cord Injuries and Surgery. ~ HERE.

• Future of A.I. in Neurosurgery. ~ HERE.

• Artificial Intelligence Could Help Detect Onset of Cardiovascular Disease. ~ HERE.

• Can A.I Improve our Breast Cancer Screening?~ HERE.

• Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Future of Radiology. ~ HERE.

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A.I. trickles down into mainstream healthcare actually relatively slowly. That Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have an interesting in Healthcare is ultimately good for the future of healthcare innovation.

The release of GPT-4 should stimulate the intersection of Generative A.I. and Healthcare applications in the second half of 2023.

OpenAI and other A.I. labs like them are highly likely to build products around the future of healthcare.

This week there was an interesting acquisition in HealthTech, when General Electric nest, GE HealthCare announced it is acquiring Caption Health’s artificial-intelligence-powered ultrasound guidance technology to its own multibillion-dollar ultrasound portfolio.

Caption Health’s AI software walks healthcare workers through the process of securing clear images from cardiac ultrasound exams, even if they’ve never performed or received training for the finicky and very precise procedure. Cardiac ultrasounds are used to diagnose heart failure, a condition that’s often detected well after symptoms first arise—in part because of the lack of trained technicians—delaying the delivery of potentially lifesaving care.

A.I. in Breast Cancer

Recently, engineers at the University of Waterloo created artificial intelligence (AI) technology to predict whether chemotherapy before surgery would be beneficial for women with breast cancer.

The open-source Cancer-Net initiative’s new AI system could help unsuitable candidates avoid the harmful side effects of chemotherapy and improve surgical outcomes for those who are qualified. It is lead by Dr Alexander Wong. Hopefully, whis will allow more unsuitable candidates to avoid the serious side effects of chemotherapy and pave the way for better surgical outcomes.

In a project led by Amy Tai, a graduate student with the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab, the AI software was trained with images of breast cancer made with a new magnetic image resonance modality, invented by Wong and his team, called synthetic correlated diffusion imaging (CDI).

A.I. Prediction is Key to More Personalized Interventions

“Determining the right treatment for a given breast cancer patient is very difficult right now, and it is crucial to avoid unnecessary side effects from using treatments that are unlikely to have real benefit for that patient,” said Wong, a professor of systems design engineering.

With knowledge gleaned from CDI images of old breast cancer cases and information on their outcomes, the AI can predict if pre-operative chemotherapy treatment would benefit new patients based on their CDI images.

via. Synthetic Correlated Diffusion Imaging (CDI). The tool has been shown to work with prostate cancer as well.

I’m not surprised to see Amy now works for Microsoft.

AI4Science

I keep talking about Microsoft’s AI4Science initiative because more projects like it are needed. I actually recommend signing up for Microsoft Research Newsletters in fields you are interested in.

You can learn more about AI4Science here. They have articles like this one about the future of A.I. hospitals where I happen to live.

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