Survival analysis of lung cancer patients in the North Central Cancer Treatment Group
By Vanessa Klotzman | Sep 29, 2022
Lung cancer is a leading killer. One of the best ways of treating and even preventing it is to study lung cancer patients and use mathematical models to identify trends and find out who is at higher risk and who has a better chance of survival. Such data will help medical professionals to better understand this disease and come up with more effective treatments.
AI in complex environments: the metaverse
The metaverse has prompted a lot of hype in recent years, but what is it exactly? AI expert Ivana Bartoletti takes a closer look at what the technology entails, and how it will likely affect people’s lives in the years to come.
The real reason self-driving vehicles will not succeed
Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, have garnered a great deal of attention in recent years, and despite the huge amounts of money and resources pouring in, the industry continues to disappoint. Is a technological breakthrough imminent, or should one expect more underperformance?
AI is the future of what exactly?
One often hears that AI is the future, and that it is poised to change the world in the coming years. However, such grandiose statements often lack clarity and are not helpful in trying to decipher which specific areas are advancing thanks to AI, which are lagging behind in the implementation of AI, and which are simply not living up to the hype.
Can the UAE become a major global center for longevity research?The UAE has a reputation as one of the most advanced and ambitious countries in the world. Many think of it as at the forefront of new technologies most countries would be unable or unwilling to implement. Writer and AI expert Calum Chace takes a look at the UAE’s efforts in longevity research and what this needs to succeed.
Health messaging in the disinformation ageThe spread of disinformation is akin to another pandemic, and poor communication and confusing, oft-changing advice from institutions like the US CDC make matters worse. Infectious disease expert William Haseltine looks at needful measures to rebuild trust, fight disinformation, and more effectively safeguard public health.
The real reason self-driving vehicles will not succeed
Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, have garnered a great deal of attention in recent years, and despite the huge amounts of money and resources pouring in, the industry continues to disappoint. Is a technological breakthrough imminent, or should one expect more underperformance?
The pursuit of the right to speech with AI
In today’s society, many people are unable to make their voices heard, either because of repression, social issues, or physical disabilities. AI, however, holds the potential to change this situation for the better.
AI aids Nigeria’s health data collection, processing, and storage
Quality of healthcare and its outcomes have long lagged in Nigeria. Sluggish AI adoption, above all in data management, is partly to blame. Solving this problem would also do much to tackle other problems confronting Africa’s top economy and most populous nation.
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New era
AI is the future of what exactly?
One often hears that AI is the future, and that it is poised to change the world in the coming years. However, such grandiose statements often lack clarity and are not helpful in trying to decipher which specific areas are advancing thanks to AI, which are lagging behind in the implementation of AI, and which are simply not living up to the hype.
New era
Myths surrounding open source AI must be dispelled
Open source data and AI hold many advantages, yet still have a reputation as insecure and unreliable. AI expert Bart de Witte looks at several common misconceptions about OS data and explains the real situation.
New era
The era of the augmented human: artificial intelligence in brain-computer interfaces
Brain-computer interface technology has developed swiftly in recent years and holds great promise in treating a wide variety of neurological disorders. Several hurdles must still be overcome before its wide implementation in medicine, but other related, non-medical, non-invasive applications for cars and personal electronic devices may become a part of daily life even sooner.
New era
War of the machines: AI develops sepsis early warning systems
After the development of antiseptics, antibiotics, and antibacterial drugs, humanity has had to contend with drug-resistant ‘super bacteria.’ This, problem and the ongoing one of sepsis - with its high risk of death if left untreated - remains unsolved, but if AI, Big Data, and ML are properly applied, they may finally achieve victory in this centuries-long fight.
Post-pandemic
Fixing the world’s public health data problem is critical
Issues of inadequate or missing data collection, and fragmented, incompatible health systems hampered the response to COVID-19 and threaten to do so in future outbreaks. Fortunately, several possible solutions could at least partly remedy this problem.
Post-pandemic
COVID experts have solutions for the aging immune system
During their studies of COVID-19 and the organ damage it can cause, experts have learned more about organs themselves, as well as the human immune system and immune responses to pathogens and are devising ways to slow or even reverse the decline in aging immune systems.
Post-pandemic
An automated machine learning COVID-19 pipeline
Researcher Parisa Naraei details how AI chatbots glean better data and attain fuller analyses, faster insights, and precision answers in the war against COVID-19 and relates the nuts and bolts of crafting these conversational AI apps.
Post-pandemic
AI gears up for future pandemics
Despite the global devastation and disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation might have been even worse without the help of AI. As the technology continues to grow and develop, it will also undoubtedly prove its worth in public health efforts to prevent potential pandemics, as well as in easing outbreaks that cannot be prevented or contained as easily.
Metaverse
AI in complex environments: the metaverse
The metaverse has prompted a lot of hype in recent years, but what is it exactly? AI expert Ivana Bartoletti takes a closer look at what the technology entails, and how it will likely affect people’s lives in the years to come.
Metaverse
Imaginary Friends 3: ‘Capital Punishment?’
‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Machine Learning’ depend on, among other things, the language used by humans. Four imaginary friends discuss the many uncertainties that creates.
Metaverse
Who will establish ethics for the metaverse?
Much has been made of the metaverse and its potential to change the world, though in many ways it is still a thing of the future. Some of its logistical hurdles and potentially negative aspects also need to be ironed out, as do misconceptions about what it actually is.
Metaverse
Expected Changes in the Regulation of Health Apps
Health apps have proliferated of late, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but their quality and reliability is often uneven. Data security and user privacy laws have also lagged. Regulation must keep pace as health-tracking and other emerging technologies continue developing. Dr Rohitashva Agrawal wonders whether the world is up to the challenge.
Optimization
Telemedicine abounds, and is here to stay
Telemedicine, although not a new phenomenon, has seen rapid, widespread adoption across the US since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many previous hurdles to this have largely been swept away, and attitudes toward telemedicine have also changed, making it more likely it is here to stay. As it evolves and improves, it is also set to become more applicable to an even broader array of medical fields.
Optimization
AI models predict India’s mortality from heart ailments
Heart ailments are the leading cause of death worldwide, which means that predictive AI for spotting them is one of the most impactful ways in which AI can improve health outcomes, in addition to flagging some well-known factors that harm cardiovascular health like poor diets, excessive stress, and insufficient exercise.
Optimization
Bot vs. bug: AI’s role in the global antimicrobial resistance crisis
Dr Gaurav Chandra discusses AI's role in antimicrobial resistance from diagnosis to therapy, asserting that humanity limits its scientific potential by not embracing the concept of information-sharing for the greater good, and concluding that moving away from working in silos, data-sharing, and creating more extensive databases can assist in early diagnosis and development of novel therapeutics for AMR.
Optimization
AI aids fluid flow simulations
AI use is becoming ever more feasible in computational fluid dynamics, where it has already yielded promising results. Different computational means have their unique advantages and drawbacks, but it is not realistic to expect AI to fully replace these, as it is more likely to serve as a complement to them.
Governance
Ongoing AI governance initiatives and possible next steps
Regulation of AI systems and automated decision-making is gleaning more attention in global legislative, policy, regulatory and professional circles. The world is seeing a proliferation of initiatives as AI and Big Data support swift developments across almost every area - especially in health.
Governance
Emotional AI and biometric data governance
Emotional AI has received a great deal of both interest and scrutiny, from its applications in shaping public opinion, enforcing airport security, and even predictive policing to prevent crimes before they happen. The ethical concerns that arise from this mean the world must change how it views emotional AI, update the legal framework governing its use, and treat it just as it would other sensitive personal data and privacy rights.
Governance
Biosecurity is national security
Cyberattacks and their disruptions have spurred governments worldwide to splurge on cyber defense, but the threat of pandemics has not prompted the same coordinated response. This must change if countries are to fully gear for future outbreaks.
Governance
Sympathy for Germany
Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has long stood as worth emulating, especially as it helped the eurozone navigate the 2010 economic crisis and continued steady growth on its strong manufacturing and robust exports. But cracks have begun to show in this model as its overreliance on Russian oil and gas has emerged, along with underinvestment in key infrastructure.
Cognition
Deep learning finds depression on social media
This paper demonstrates a comparative performance of the various machine learning models used to classify tweets, which helps detect early signs of depression using computing tools, statistical analysis, linguistic feature extraction techniques, and machine-learning algorithms.
Keywords—twitter, data mining, twins, Natural Language Processing, sentiment analysis, neural networks, LSTM.
Cognition
Revolutionizing diabetes care: AI interventions make for more precise patient management
Diabetes has long been difficult to manage, especially in rich countries but increasingly in developing countries as well. Whether or not one thinks this non-communicable disease should be treated as epidemic or as a lifestyle-related disease, it must be dealt with urgently, though fortunately AI is helping with personalized and effective treatments.
Cognition
Federated learning includes democratized and personalized AI with privacy by design
Federated learning is an ML technique that enables building of models without the need to store comprehensive personal data to address privacy and security concerns. It has many potential applications and holds great promise, so to understand its workings and its current drawbacks and what still needs to be done is key.
Cognition
Barriers to adopting digital pathology in developing economies and mitigation strategy
Hurdles to digitalizing pathology are falling, even in developing nations. Competition and innovation keep cutting the costs of digitalization, which the pandemic has hastened, and its benefits outweigh brief hiccups from one-off shifts to the new technology, as Dr Rohitashva Agrawal explains.
Community
AI is the future of what exactly?
One often hears that AI is the future, and that it is poised to change the world in the coming years. However, such grandiose statements often lack clarity and are not helpful in trying to decipher which specific areas are advancing thanks to AI, which are lagging behind in the implementation of AI, and which are simply not living up to the hype.
|
Sep 26, 2022
Myths surrounding open source AI must be dispelled
Open source data and AI hold many advantages, yet still have a reputation as insecure and unreliable. AI expert Bart de Witte looks at several common misconceptions about OS data and explains the real situation.
|
Sep 12, 2022
The era of the augmented human: artificial intelligence in brain-computer interfaces
Brain-computer interface technology has developed swiftly in recent years and holds great promise in treating a wide variety of neurological disorders. Several hurdles must still be overcome before its wide implementation in medicine, but other related, non-medical, non-invasive applications for cars and personal electronic devices may become a part of daily life even sooner.
|
Aug 31, 2022
War of the machines: AI develops sepsis early warning systems
After the development of antiseptics, antibiotics, and antibacterial drugs, humanity has had to contend with drug-resistant ‘super bacteria.’ This, problem and the ongoing one of sepsis - with its high risk of death if left untreated - remains unsolved, but if AI, Big Data, and ML are properly applied, they may finally achieve victory in this centuries-long fight.
|
Aug 30, 2022
Fixing the world’s public health data problem is critical
Issues of inadequate or missing data collection, and fragmented, incompatible health systems hampered the response to COVID-19 and threaten to do so in future outbreaks. Fortunately, several possible solutions could at least partly remedy this problem.
|
Aug 29, 2022
COVID experts have solutions for the aging immune system
During their studies of COVID-19 and the organ damage it can cause, experts have learned more about organs themselves, as well as the human immune system and immune responses to pathogens and are devising ways to slow or even reverse the decline in aging immune systems.
|
Aug 11, 2022
An automated machine learning COVID-19 pipeline
Researcher Parisa Naraei details how AI chatbots glean better data and attain fuller analyses, faster insights, and precision answers in the war against COVID-19 and relates the nuts and bolts of crafting these conversational AI apps.
|
Aug 03, 2022
AI gears up for future pandemics
Despite the global devastation and disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation might have been even worse without the help of AI. As the technology continues to grow and develop, it will also undoubtedly prove its worth in public health efforts to prevent potential pandemics, as well as in easing outbreaks that cannot be prevented or contained as easily.
|
Jul 11, 2022
AI in complex environments: the metaverse
The metaverse has prompted a lot of hype in recent years, but what is it exactly? AI expert Ivana Bartoletti takes a closer look at what the technology entails, and how it will likely affect people’s lives in the years to come.
|
Sep 28, 2022
Imaginary Friends 3: ‘Capital Punishment?’
‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Machine Learning’ depend on, among other things, the language used by humans. Four imaginary friends discuss the many uncertainties that creates.
|
Sep 21, 2022
Who will establish ethics for the metaverse?
Much has been made of the metaverse and its potential to change the world, though in many ways it is still a thing of the future. Some of its logistical hurdles and potentially negative aspects also need to be ironed out, as do misconceptions about what it actually is.
|
Sep 06, 2022
Expected Changes in the Regulation of Health Apps
Health apps have proliferated of late, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but their quality and reliability is often uneven. Data security and user privacy laws have also lagged. Regulation must keep pace as health-tracking and other emerging technologies continue developing. Dr Rohitashva Agrawal wonders whether the world is up to the challenge.
|
Jun 03, 2022
Telemedicine abounds, and is here to stay
Telemedicine, although not a new phenomenon, has seen rapid, widespread adoption across the US since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many previous hurdles to this have largely been swept away, and attitudes toward telemedicine have also changed, making it more likely it is here to stay. As it evolves and improves, it is also set to become more applicable to an even broader array of medical fields.
|
Sep 15, 2022
AI models predict India’s mortality from heart ailments
Heart ailments are the leading cause of death worldwide, which means that predictive AI for spotting them is one of the most impactful ways in which AI can improve health outcomes, in addition to flagging some well-known factors that harm cardiovascular health like poor diets, excessive stress, and insufficient exercise.
|
Sep 09, 2022
Bot vs. bug: AI’s role in the global antimicrobial resistance crisis
Dr Gaurav Chandra discusses AI's role in antimicrobial resistance from diagnosis to therapy, asserting that humanity limits its scientific potential by not embracing the concept of information-sharing for the greater good, and concluding that moving away from working in silos, data-sharing, and creating more extensive databases can assist in early diagnosis and development of novel therapeutics for AMR.
|
Sep 07, 2022
AI aids fluid flow simulations
AI use is becoming ever more feasible in computational fluid dynamics, where it has already yielded promising results. Different computational means have their unique advantages and drawbacks, but it is not realistic to expect AI to fully replace these, as it is more likely to serve as a complement to them.
|
Aug 23, 2022
Ongoing AI governance initiatives and possible next steps
Regulation of AI systems and automated decision-making is gleaning more attention in global legislative, policy, regulatory and professional circles. The world is seeing a proliferation of initiatives as AI and Big Data support swift developments across almost every area - especially in health.
|
Sep 19, 2022
Emotional AI and biometric data governance
Emotional AI has received a great deal of both interest and scrutiny, from its applications in shaping public opinion, enforcing airport security, and even predictive policing to prevent crimes before they happen. The ethical concerns that arise from this mean the world must change how it views emotional AI, update the legal framework governing its use, and treat it just as it would other sensitive personal data and privacy rights.
|
Sep 08, 2022
Biosecurity is national security
Cyberattacks and their disruptions have spurred governments worldwide to splurge on cyber defense, but the threat of pandemics has not prompted the same coordinated response. This must change if countries are to fully gear for future outbreaks.
|
Aug 17, 2022
Sympathy for Germany
Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has long stood as worth emulating, especially as it helped the eurozone navigate the 2010 economic crisis and continued steady growth on its strong manufacturing and robust exports. But cracks have begun to show in this model as its overreliance on Russian oil and gas has emerged, along with underinvestment in key infrastructure.
|
Aug 10, 2022
Deep learning finds depression on social media
This paper demonstrates a comparative performance of the various machine learning models used to classify tweets, which helps detect early signs of depression using computing tools, statistical analysis, linguistic feature extraction techniques, and machine-learning algorithms.
Keywords—twitter, data mining, twins, Natural Language Processing, sentiment analysis, neural networks, LSTM.
|
Sep 20, 2022
Revolutionizing diabetes care: AI interventions make for more precise patient management
Diabetes has long been difficult to manage, especially in rich countries but increasingly in developing countries as well. Whether or not one thinks this non-communicable disease should be treated as epidemic or as a lifestyle-related disease, it must be dealt with urgently, though fortunately AI is helping with personalized and effective treatments.
|
Aug 22, 2022
Federated learning includes democratized and personalized AI with privacy by design
Federated learning is an ML technique that enables building of models without the need to store comprehensive personal data to address privacy and security concerns. It has many potential applications and holds great promise, so to understand its workings and its current drawbacks and what still needs to be done is key.
|
Aug 12, 2022
Barriers to adopting digital pathology in developing economies and mitigation strategy
Hurdles to digitalizing pathology are falling, even in developing nations. Competition and innovation keep cutting the costs of digitalization, which the pandemic has hastened, and its benefits outweigh brief hiccups from one-off shifts to the new technology, as Dr Rohitashva Agrawal explains.
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Aug 04, 2022
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