AI for Health
Research and collaborations contributing to the Microsoft AI for Health program
Nouvelles et reportages
Dans l’actualité | LinkedIn Article
Improving breast cancer screening with AI
At Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, we’ve been working with partners at the University of Washington, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and other institutions to explore whether artificial intelligence can help bring greater clarity, accuracy, and trust to breast cancer…
Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.
Dans l’actualité | Fred Hutch Press Release
Cancer centers launch Cancer AI Alliance to unlock discoveries, transform care using cancer data and applied AI
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins – have joined forces and secured funding from AI technology leaders AWS, Deloitte,…
Dans l’actualité | Novartis LinkedIn Article
Opportunities and limits: What is the role of AI in population health?
Over the last decennia, scientific innovations in medicine significantly extended our life expectancy, while innovations in technology changed the way we deliver health and care. Despite these advances, today’s health challenges remain unprecedented: aging populations, the constant threat of climate…
Dans l’actualité | LinkedIn Article
Novartis – AI4HealthyCities
It is known that only 20% of our health outcomes are shaped by the healthcare we access; the other 80% is linked to the conditions in which we grow, live, work and age[I]. Along with Microsoft AI for Health, local…
Dans l’actualité | Global Epidemics
New Analysis Shows Vaccines Could Have Prevented 318,000 Deaths
A new analysis by researchers at Brown School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Microsoft AI for Health shows that vaccines could have prevented at least 318,000 Covid-19 deaths between January…
Dans l’actualité | Pharmaphorum
AI tool helps detect leprosy using pictures
Ann Aerts, head of the Novartis Foundation, tells us about AI4Leprosy, a diagnostic assistant researchers developed that helps healthcare workers detect leprosy with over 90% accuracy using pictures of a patient’s skin lesion. An international team of scientists — led…
Dans l’actualité | Daily Mail
COVID-19 public health measures such as social distancing led to a nearly 40% decrease in emergency room visits for pink eye
Researchers at Microsoft worked together with Researchers at the University of Washington. During the pandemic, fewer people sought out care for pink eye due to coronavirus-inspired social distancing, increased handwashing and other health measures. Researchers analyzed both emergency department visits…
Dans l’actualité | EurekAlert
First village-level mapping of childhood undernutrition in India reveals local disparities
The risk of childhood undernutrition varies widely among villages in India, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with researchers at Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard’s Center for Population and Development…