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Updates on Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies in Medicine 🤖🩺🚀
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In today’s capsule:
4 News Updates (1 Deep Dive)
3 Research Updates
2 Upcoming Events
1 Infographic
Reading Time: 5-7 minutes
News Updates 📰
1. 🦾 First Human Receives Robotic Limb Fused with Nervous and Skeletal Systems
Why Important: A woman has become the first to receive a robotic limb that integrates with both her nervous and skeletal systems, marking a revolutionary step in prosthetic technology.
Developed under the "Dexterous Transradial Osseointegrated Prosthesis with neural control and sensory feedback" (DeTOP) project, this advancement promises to significantly enhance mobility and quality of life for millions of amputees worldwide, transcending the limitations of traditional artificial limbs.
“By combining osseointegration with reconstructive surgery, implanted electrodes, and AI, we can restore human function in an unprecedented way. The below elbow amputation level has particular challenges, and the level of functionality achieved marks an important milestone for the field of advanced extremity reconstructions as a whole.” - Professor Rickard Brånemark, a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and associate professor at Gothenburg University in Sweden
Caution: While this bionic limb represents a significant advancement, it also brings challenges, including the intricate engineering required for bone alignment and concerns about long-term effects and durability.
Ethical and psychological considerations of integrating technology with the human body, along with ensuring patient safety and managing expectations, are key issues that need careful attention as this technology evolves.
2. 🔍 First Ever CAD EYE AI System Installed in Pune for Gastrointestinal Cancer Detection
A pioneering CAD EYE AI system, developed with collaboration from Ruby Hall Clinic, FUJIFILM India, and led by Dr. Nitin Pai of Pune GI Private Limited, is now operational in Pune. This advanced technology enhances early detection of gastrointestinal cancers, yet effective integration remains a challenge for maximizing its impact in categorizing abnormalities within the GI tract.
3. 🧠 AI-Based Stroke Care Guidance Results in Fewer Recurrent Strokes
Chinese researchers from Capital Medical University’s Beijing Tiantan Hospital, revealed that AI-based stroke care guidance significantly reduces recurrent strokes, heart attacks, or vascular deaths within three months for ischemic stroke survivors compared to standard care. However, despite promising results, limitations in hospital randomization and the need for longer-term assessment of care benefits raise concerns about the generalizability and sustainability of AI-based interventions.
4. 🔬 Stanford Unveils CheXagent: Advanced Model for Chest X-ray Analysis
Researchers from Stanford University introduced CheXagent, an instruction-tuned foundation model designed for chest X-ray interpretation, incorporating an 8 billion parameter architecture and integrating language understanding with visual perception. However, ensuring alignment with human radiologist standards poses a notable challenge for its implementation.
Research Updates 🔬
1. 🚗 Machine Learning Detects Hypoglycemia in Drivers with Diabetes
A recent study introduces a groundbreaking machine learning (ML) method for detecting hypoglycemia in individuals with diabetes while driving real cars, aiming to mitigate hypoglycemia-related accidents and enhance driving safety. However, this approach requires further validation in larger datasets to confirm generalizability and effectiveness, while addressing concerns about data privacy, algorithm bias, and real-world feasibility before widespread adoption.
2. 🔬 AI Enhances Prediction of Clinical Pregnancy Through Improved Embryo Imaging
This study reveals how an AI model, by analyzing enhanced images of the inner cell mass (ICM) and trophectoderm (TE) of day-5 blastocysts, significantly improves its ability to predict clinical pregnancies, marking a crucial advancement in reproductive technology and fertility treatments. However, the study's applicability is limited, as it was conducted within a specific racial demographic in South Korea, necessitating validation through a more diverse, international study.
3. 🔍 Federated Learning Revolutionizes AI in Melanoma Diagnostics
The study unveils a novel federated learning approach for AI-based melanoma diagnostics, offering enhanced privacy by distributing classifier development across hospitals and demonstrating, through research at six German university hospitals, its ability to match or surpass the diagnostic performance of traditional centralized methods in identifying invasive melanomas and nevi. However, it faces limitations due to protocol heterogeneity and pathologist discordance in melanoma classification.
Upcoming Events 🧑💻
Infographic 📊
Let’s wrap it up with an interesting fact!
In 1972, Jack Myers, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and Harry Pople, a computer scientist with a special interest in AI, collaborated to develop a system for differential diagnosis in internal medicine. Called Internist-1, the system contained a knowledge base of causal and taxonomic relationships between clinical findings and diagnostic hypotheses, and used a powerful ranking algorithm to reach diagnoses. (source)
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