Embrace technology-driven medical techniques to prevent health catastrophes: Expert, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Embrace technology-driven medical techniques to prevent health catastrophes: Expert, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Thiruvananthapuram: India will face a tsunami of chronic diseases such as cancer due to globalisation, growing economy, ageing population and changing lifestyle, warns a leading oncologist, making it imperative for the country to embrace technology-driven medical techniques to prevent health catastrophes in an effective and affordable manner. Cancer vaccines for prevention and treatment, expansion of … Read more

Researchers develop artificial intelligence screening techniques to speed up drug discovery – ET HealthWorld

Researchers develop artificial intelligence screening techniques to speed up drug discovery – ET HealthWorld

Orlando: Developing life-saving drugs can cost billions of dollars and take decades, but researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-based drug screening technique by using that they hope to shorten the process. Using a method that models drug and target protein interactions using natural language processing techniques, the researchers achieved up to 97% accuracy in … Read more

Introducing advanced image analytic techniques through AI has huge potential in radiology: Ajit Patil, Co-founder, DeepTek – ET HealthWorld

Introducing advanced image analytic techniques through AI has huge potential in radiology: Ajit Patil, Co-founder, DeepTek – ET HealthWorld

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Ajit Patil, Co-founder, DeepTek, to find out about the transformation in radiology through deep learning that has the power to enhance image analysis and reduce turnaround time.What challenges and opportunities do you see in AI and radiology?Radiology is an emerging industry. There is a huge potential to bring AI … Read more

IIT Jodhpur, Western Michigan University, develop ML techniques for early warning system for neonatal, infant mortality – ET HealthWorld

IIT Jodhpur, Western Michigan University, develop ML techniques  for early warning system for neonatal, infant mortality – ET HealthWorld

Jodhpur: Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur) and Western Michigan University, US, have identified significant neonatal and infant mortality predictors using multiple machine learning (ML) techniques. The study uses nationwide household survey data from India. The primary objective of this research was to identify early warning signs of child mortality that … Read more

Gene-edited baby techniques ‘currently not safe’

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Image copyright Getty Images Current scientific techniques are not yet safe or effective enough to be used to create gene-edited babies, an international committee says. The technology could one day prevent parents from passing on heritable diseases to children, but the committee says much more research is needed. The world’s first gene-edited babies were born … Read more