Healthcare IT News October 6, 2020
Working with AWS, researchers from UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon are building new machine learning tools for breast cancer and depression screening.
More than a year since they announced a partnership to advance machine learning advancement in areas such as oncology, precision medicine and imaging, the researchers from the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance and AWS are unveiling new AI-based techniques to assess breast cancer risk, understand tumor growth and better spot markers of depression.
WHY IT MATTERS
The PHDA members – UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University – with funding from Amazon Research Awards, are tackling multiple areas where machine learning could lead to new medical innovation.
In one project, a team in the radiology...