Nouvelles et reportages

Reimagining healthcare delivery and public health with AI
| Peter Lee, Dr. Umair Shah, et Dr. Gianrico Farrugia
Former Washington State Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah and Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia explore how healthcare leaders are approaching AI when it comes to public health, care delivery, the healthcare-research connection, and the patient experience.
Kevin K. Yang, Sarah Alamdari, Alex J. Lee, Kaeli Kaymak-Loveless, Samir Char, Garyk Brixi, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Chentong Wang, Suyue Lyu, Nicolo Fusi, Philip Rosenfield, Neil Tenenholtz, Ava P. Amini “The body of data available in protein sequences is something fundamentally…
Lack of children in public medical imaging data points to growing age bias in biomedical AI
Alex Lu (opens in new tab), Stan Hua (opens in new tab), Lauren Erdman (opens in new tab) Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare with applications from interpreting electronic healthcare records to detecting cancer from medical images. We ask: are…

PadChest-GR: A bilingual grounded radiology reporting benchmark for chest X-rays
| Daniel Coelho de Castro et Javier Alvarez-Valle
The world’s first multimodal, bilingual radiology dataset could reshape the way radiologists and AI systems make sense of X-rays. PadChest-GR, developed by the University of Alicante with Microsoft Research, has the potential to advance research across the field for years…

Abstracts: Zero-shot models in single-cell biology with Alex Lu
| Gretchen Huizinga et Alex Lu
The emergence of foundation models has sparked interest in applications to single-cell biology, but when tested in zero-shot settings, they underperform compared to simpler methods. Alex Lu shares insights on why more research on AI models is needed in biological…

Collaborators: Healthcare Innovation to Impact
| Matthew Lungren, Jonathan M. Carlson, Smitha Saligrama, Will Guyman, et Cameron Runde
In this discussion, Matthew Lungren, Jonathan Carlson, Smitha Saligrama, Will Guyman, and Cameron Runde explore how teams across Microsoft are working together to generate advanced AI capabilities and solutions for developers and clinicians around the globe.
Philip Rosenfield, Alex X. Lu, Ava P. Amini, Lorin Crawford, Kasia Z. Kedzierska Single-cell foundation models are an exciting paradigm for biologists, as they may accelerate the understanding of complex cell data and reveal previously unknown biology. Single-cell foundation models…

Research Focus: Week of April 7, 2025
In this issue: We introduce a new dataset designed to assist renewable energy infrastructure planners, a new method for denoising MRI imagery, and an AI tool for analyzing distant galaxies. Check out our latest research and other updates.

Research Focus: Week of March 24, 2025
In this issue, we examine a new conversation segmentation method that delivers more coherent and personalized agent conversation, and we review efforts to improve MLLMs’ understanding of geologic maps. Check out the latest research and other updates.