AI in the News

The First AI Breast Cancer Sleuth That Shows Its Work

Computer engineers and radiologists at Duke University have developed an artificial intelligence platform to analyze potentially cancerous lesions in mammography scans to determine if a patient should receive an invasive biopsy, and it shows physicians exactly how it came to its conclusions.

AI model uses retinal scans to predict Alzheimer’s disease

A form of artificial intelligence designed to interpret a combination of retinal images was able to successfully identify a group of patients who were known to have Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting the approach could one day be used as a predictive tool, according to an interdisciplinary study from Duke University. The novel computer software looks at retinal structure and blood vessels on images of the inside of the eye that have been correlated with cognitive changes.