“As the U.S. continues to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the National Institutes of Health has doubled down on artificial intelligence technologies and multi-institute research programs to rapidly understand how the disease affects people.”
“’AI has become a really important part of what we do,’ said National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) CIO Alastair Thomson during the Artificial Intelligence: New Horizons in Medicine event Aug. 13. ‘It’s really been enabled by the technologies of the cloud, GPUs and other techniques, which have made machine-learning techniques, deep neural networks and other elements of AI feasible in ways that we’ve never thought before.’”
“Co-leading NHLBI’s BioData Catalyst Program — a large cloud-based infrastructure for heart, lung, blood and sleep research — Thomson explained that the agency is funding a number of health projects using AI.”
“Researchers are analyzing lung-related diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pneumonia using AI and CT scan models, which could be used to accelerate predicting, diagnosing and examining diseases like these in clinical settings, including COVID-19…” Read the full article here.
Source: How AI is Driving NIH COVID-19 Response – By Faith Ryan, August 17, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
