Researchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine
A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders.
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Helping companies deploy AI models more responsibly
MIT spinout Verta offers tools to help companies introduce, monitor, and manage machine-learning models safely and at scale.
Machine Learning Takes On Sepsis
By Deborah Borfitz, Senior Science Writer An early-stage startup is endeavoring to help clinical teams deliver high-value critical care with precision, and its first target is sepsis—a life-threatening complication of infection that kills one in three stricken adults and one in 10 kids. Its chief tactics are to “organize behavior at the bedside” and make […]
Prime Therapeutics Using AI to Analyze Prescription Data, Detect Fraud
By AI Trends Staff Prime Therapeutics, a drug cost management firm 66,000 client pharmacies and 28 million members, is working with software supplier SAS to analyze prescription ordering data in an effort to identify fraud. Owned by the Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance organization, Prime Therapeutics is having some success in its efforts. The […]
AI of Sensors: Preview of the Sensors Summit, Dec. 10-12, San Diego
By AI Trends Staff Sensors have become ubiquitous. Current advances in sensor technology are revolutionizing nearly every aspect of our society. But it’s the symbiosis of sensors and AI that’s so compelling. By blending hardware and software, sensors can interact with the physical world and connect to the digital world. If this is the kind […]
Executive Interview: Dr. Russell Greiner, Professor CS and founding Scientific Director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
After earning a PhD from Stanford, Russ Greiner worked in both academic and industrial research before settling at the University of Alberta, where he is now a Professor in Computing Science and the founding Scientific Director of the Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning (now Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute), which won the ASTech Award for “Outstanding Leadership in Technology” in […]
Catalia Health Tries Free Interactive Robots to for In-Home Patient Care
A little more than three-and-a-half years ago, Cory Kidd founded Catalia Health based on the work he did at the MIT Media Lab and Boston University Medical Center. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company’s overarching goal is to improve patient engagement and launch behavior change. But the way it goes about meeting that mission is unique. Through Catalia […]
Montreal-Toronto AI Startups Have Wide Range of Focus
Includes Healthcare, Biomed, Text Analysis, Legal Research, Image Analysis, Drug Discovery, Education Canada has made a commitment for many years to the study of AI at universities across the county, and today robust business incubation programs supported by Canada’s state and regional governments work to transform research into viable businesses. This AI ecosystem has produced […]
MIT Researchers Pushing Machine Learning to Speed Drug Development
Designing new molecules for pharmaceuticals is primarily a manual, time-consuming process that’s prone to error. But MIT researchers have now taken a step toward fully automating the design process, which could drastically speed things up — and produce better results. Drug discovery relies on lead optimization. In this process, chemists select a target (“lead”) molecule […]
VA, IBM Extend Watson For Genomics Partnership
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and IBM Watson Health have announced the extension of a public-private partnership to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to help interpret cancer data in the treatment of Veteran patients. First announced two years ago as part of the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, VA oncologists have now used IBM Watson for Genomics […]