AI in Medicine

Published: Dec. 12, 2017, 12:30 a.m.

b'Phil and Stephen review a series of articles from MIT Technology Review goo.gl/kspwkz showcasing progress in artificial-intelligence driven medicine\\n\\nCan AI Keep You Healthy?\\n\\nICX wants to capture more data about your body than has ever before been possible. It starts with your DNA sequence and includes data from Fitbit-style wearables that measure your steps, heart rate, and sleep patterns.\\n\\nThe Artificially Intelligent Doctor Will Hear You Now\\n\\nU.K.-based startup Babylon will launch an app later this year that will listen to your symptoms and provide medical advice. Will it help or hinder the health-care system?\\n\\nTreating Addiction with an App\\n\\nUsing smartphone data and artificial intelligence to track and interpret behavior, a Chicago startup is attempting something extraordinary: predicting and preventing relapse into drug use.\\n\\nStopping Breast Cancer with Help from AI\\n\\nIn an effort to find targeted treatments for particularly invasive types of breast cancer that don\\u2019t respond well to existing drugs, the Department of Defense announced this week that it is enlisting the biopharma company Berg Health to use AI for drug discovery.\\n\\nThe Recipe for the Perfect Robot Surgeon\\n\\nOne of Verb\\u2019s priorities is to use artificial intelligence to help surgeons interpret what they see inside a patient.\\n\\nWT 380-691'