Can Big Data Improve Medical Diagnoses?

What if software akin to the program that recognizes faces in Facebook photos could detect cancer in an x-ray? That’s the idea behind Enlitic, a new startup founded by Jeremy Howard. Howard is a heavy hitter in big data: He’s data strategist for Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Khosla Ventures and former president and chief […]

The Data Scientist on a Quest to Turn Computers Into Doctors

SOME OF THE world’s most brilliant minds are working as data scientists at places like Google, Facebook, and Twitter—analyzing the enormous troves of online information generated by these tech giants—and for hacker and entrepreneur Jeremy Howard, that’s a bit depressing. Read the full article at Wired

A Startup Hopes to Teach Computers to Spot Tumors in Medical Scans

Machines are doing more and more of the work typically completed by humans, and detecting diseases may be next: a new company called Enlitic takes aim at the examination room by employing computers to make diagnoses based on images. Read the full article at MIT Technology Review

Meet Enlitic, a startup that helps doctors analyze images with deep learning

The time has come for doctors to call on fleets of servers to spot hidden trends and anomalies in medical images as they diagnose patients. That’s because today a startup called Enlitic launched. It’s building technology to assist doctors using an increasingly popular approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning. Read the full article […]