Enlitic CEO: Deep-Learning Software Could Soon Help Diagnose Patients

“Take two aspirin and call me in the morning” is the punch line to decades’ worth of doctor-diagnosis jokes, but San Francisco software company Enlitic doesn’t see the humor in it. Enlitic is building a computer system to help doctors make faster, more accurate diagnoses, and it’s gotten its first major customer in the Australian […]

Deep learning startup Enlitic raises $10M from radiology company Capitol Health

Enlitic, a startup using a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning to help radiologists do a better job of understanding medical images, is announcing today a $10 million round of funding. The money comes from Capitol Health Limited, a publicly traded company that provides diagnostic imaging services in clinics across Australia. Read the full […]

Robot Radiologists Will Soon Analyze Your X-Rays

GOOGLE IS GETTING really, really good at recognizing photos and videos of cats. All it took was supplying millions of examples so that the company’s software—based on a branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning—could start recognizing the difference between cats and other furry creatures. But Jeremy Howard wants to use deep learning for something […]

Tumor-Spotting Startup Enlitic Raises $10 Million In Funding

Enlitic, a startup that uses algorithms to analyze radiology scans, raised $10 million in its second round of funding as it starts marketing… Read the full article at Bloomberg

Home Artificial intelligence: Humankind’s best chance for a healthier future

In the 1990s Garry Kasparov achieved rock star status in the chess world with a freestyle approach that made mincemeat of his opponents. But Kasparov’s reign as world chess master ended in 1997 at the digital hands of IBM’s Deep Blue, making him the first high-profile victim of the modern machine. He would not be […]

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Now there’s an app for that

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) can sometimes be put to rather whimsical uses. In 2012 Google announced that one of its computers, after watching thousands of hours of YouTube videos, had trained itself to identify cats. Earlier this year a secretive AI firm called DeepMind, bought by Google in 2014, reported in Nature that it had managed […]

50 Smartest Companies 2015

Massive solar panel factories. Fertility treatments. Friendly robots. Meet the companies reshaping the technology business. Read the full article at Technology Review

5 AI startups to watch in 2015

For some, artificial intelligence (AI) represents the next logical progression in the advancement of technology. For others, it is simply mankind trying to play God. Despite the ardent arguments lobbied from either side of the debate, AI continues to move forward. Tools such as IBM Watson and Wolfram|Alpha are growing in popularity, with the former […]

Could this computer save your life?

Cancer is good at hiding. It’s so good that sometimes sick patients are sent home with a clean bill of health. And screenings don’t always help: A 2013 study by Oxford University found “no evidence” that screening programs are responsible for the decline in breast cancer, and a study by the Huntsman Cancer Institute last […]