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      Innovations In: AI and digital health

      Innovations In: AI and digital health

      Over the next decade artificial intelligence is likely to transform the biomedical world. Deep-learning algorithms could aid in developing new drugs, interpreting medical images, cleaning up electronic patient charts, and more. This special report explores the promise of this nascent revolution

      • January 14, 2020
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      How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Medicine
      Biotech

      How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Medicine

      By channeling a flood of biomedical data, machine learning could transform basic research and clinical practice

      • February 1, 2020 — Claudia Wallis
      Hunting for New Drugs with AI
      Medicine

      Hunting for New Drugs with AI

      The pharmaceutical industry is in a drug-discovery slump. How much can AI help?

      • February 1, 2020 — David H. Freedman
      Rise of Robot Radiologists
      Biotech

      Rise of Robot Radiologists

      Deep-learning algorithms are peering into MRIs and x-rays with unmatched vision, but who is to blame when they make a mistake?

      • February 1, 2020 — Sara Reardon

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      Digital health: Smartphone-based monitoring of multiple sclerosis using Floodlight
      Biotech

      Digital health: Smartphone-based monitoring of multiple sclerosis using Floodlight

      February 1, 2020 — Mike Baker, Johan van Beek and Christian Gossens

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