Tick-borne encephalitis virus detected in ticks in the UK: Surveillance detects tick-borne encephalitis virus in 2 parts of England for the first time. "Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) has been detected for the first time in ticks in the UK. The findings are part of ongoing research by Public Health...
Source: www.gov.uk
Teaching a difficult topic using a problem-based concept resembling a computer game: development and evaluation of an e-learning application for medical molecular genetics: E-learning through serious gaming. Teaching concepts such as genetic testing and the digital literacy required to analyse data can...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Better wisdom from crowds: MIT scholars produce new method of harvesting correct answers from groups. “A new technique [described in 2017] can better extract correct answers from large groups of people. For a given question, people are asked two things: What they think the right answer is, and what...
Source: mit.edu
Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot: A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they “speak” to one another as individuals.
Source: smithsonianmag.com
Could deep learning AI be used to screen TIA clinic referral letters? Possibly. Stroke prevention clinics (TIA or Transient Ischaemic Attack) clinics are an important aspect of urgent care. A TIA is a risk factor for future stroke. Medical treatment needs to be started quickly and surgical options, if...
Source: agnate.co.uk
Five management strategies for getting the most from artificial intelligence (AI). "To find out more about what contributes to successful AI adoption, we helped lead a survey by the McKinsey Global Institute of 3,000 C-level executives across 10 countries and 14 sectors. From that research, we identified...
Source: mit.edu
Cloud computing services transform our economies while economic measurement struggles to keep up with the new technology. Gone are the days when servers used to live in the office basement since now more technology is moving to 'the cloud'. "As the inexorable rise of cloud computing services continues...
Source: escoe.ac.uk
Building SMILY, a Human-Centric, Similar-Image Search Tool for Pathology. Advances in machine learning (ML) have shown great promise for assisting in the work of healthcare professionals, such as aiding the detection of diabetic eye disease and metastatic breast cancer. Though high-performing algorithms...
Source: googleblog.com
Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced tremendous success. Based on deep neural networks, NMT models are usually trained end-to-end on very large parallel corpora (input/output text pairs) in an entirely data-driven...
Source: googleblog.com
Joint Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization via Sequence Transduction: Posted by Laurent El Shafey, Software Engineer and Izhak Shafran, Research Scientist, Google Health Being able to recognize “who said what”.
Source: googleblog.com
UK Lyme disease cases may be three times higher than estimated: Researchers say tick-borne disease ‘is everywhere’ with 8,000 diagnoses likely in 2019
Source: theguardian.com
Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020: The 64-chip Pohoiki Beach system is used by researchers to make systems that learn and see the world more like humans. "At the DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit today in Detroit, Intel plans to unveil an 8-million-neuron...
Source: ieee.org
Gaining insights with Natural Language Processing of Reddit Data to Evaluate Dermatology Patient Experiences and Therapeutics. "There is a lack of research studying patient-generated data on Reddit, one of the world’s most popular forums with active users interested in dermatology. Techniques within...
Source: sciencedirect.com
Virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects: Psychologist Pete Etchells on his book, Lost in a Good Game. " ... a psychologist at Bath Spa University in England but still an avid gamer, Etchells specializes in understanding the behavioral effects—both positive and negative—of video...
Source: arstechnica.com
Development of new antibiotics encouraged with new pharmaceutical payment system: The NHS will test the world's first ‘subscription’ style payment model to incentivise pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs for resistant infections.
"The new trial will be led by the National Institute for...
Source: www.gov.uk
Interested in shared decision making? What does it really mean to remove the distance between a doctor and their patient or family when managing the most complex of medical cases? Then read this. Matt Morgan, a colleague of mine from OnExamination days, an intensive care specialist in Cardiff, has written...
Source: simonandschuster.co.uk
How do you define a scenario? Researchers in Futures & Foresight Science suggest an approach based on published literature. The approach suggests a series of questions (see diagram) to challenge a particular phenomenon to check if it is a scenario that can be used in future planning - or if it is...
Source: wiley.com
Humanitarian health computing using artificial intelligence and social media: A narrative literature review. "The feasibility of using AI to extract valuable information during a
humanitarian health crisis is proven in many cases. There is a lack of
research on how to integrate the use of AI into...
Source: nih.gov
Closing Knowledge Gaps to Optimize Patient Outcomes and Advance Precision Medicine. "Realizing the promise of precision medicine requires patient engagement
at the key decision points throughout the cancer journey. Previous
research has shown that patients who make the "right" decisions, such as
...
Source: nih.gov
It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t: A new study helps explain the myth. "Consistent with past research on learning styles, the participants’
preferred learning style (verbal or pictorial) was not related in any
way to how well they recalled the pairs...
Source: bps.org.uk