On @midjourney "Full Body Scanner"
A good idea that could enhance our imaging capabilities, especially by leveraging the power of ultrasound.
But this is not a full body scan. You cannot use ultrasound to image the brain. My
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Ultrasound for full body scan: impossible for the brain
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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence in the AI Model War
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"The World's AI Model War" (Not that we need another AI war)
https://fastcompany.com/91549046/fei-fei-li-world-labs-ai-gets-physical-models-spatial-intelligence
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Medical AI Models for End-to-End Care in ER and Outpatient Visits
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Until now, we haven't seen medical AI models intended to provide end-to-end care after presentation to an emergency department or longitudinally via 3 sequential outpatient visits. There's a lot to unpack in 2 new @nature publications today. Summarized in a new post.
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What Happens When AI Meets Thousands of Plasma Proteins?
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what happens when you combine thousands of plasma proteins and AI?
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Proven AI for Colonoscopy and Mammography Unused
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AI for colonoscopy and mammography are the best proven successes of medical AI, through randomized trials and real-world studies, yet they are not being used. But what is widely adapted is the unproven stuff. https://
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-paradox-
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AI diagnosis needs prospective rigorous assessment for real-world tasks
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Yes. Widely relying on this for patient diagnosis and management w/o prospective, rigorous assessment for real world tasks until now.
As the authors point out: "scale, alignment and cross-domain reasoning may outweigh domain-specific
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65% of US physicians use OpenEvidence with 27 million prompts in April
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>65% of US physicians use OpenEvidence, with 27 million prompts in April https://
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General AI models outperform specialized medical sources in study
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For medical information, general AI frontier models (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic) outperformed specialized @EvidenceOpen and @UpToDate as assessed by 12 US clinicians, randomized and blinded to which model and extensive testing/benchmarks. This was not anticipated.
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AI reduces brain tumor diagnosis from 12 days to 12 minutes
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Reducing brain tumor diagnosis from 12 days to 12 minutes with AI.
Predicting methylation pattern from path slides.
Outperformed 5 neuropathologists @NatureCancer @MoritzGerstung https://
nature.com/articles/s4301
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AI Detects Breast Cancer Risk Years Before from Normal Mammograms
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AI of radiologist read as normal mammograms shown to detect high-risk of breast cancer out several years
"Artificial intelligence scores from sequential
mammograms in individuals diagnosed with breast cancer showed elevated scores up to 10 years before diagnosis"
a retrospective