MIT Researchers Build Wearable Ultrasound Scanner For Earlier Breast Cancer Detection – The Medical Futurist Newsletter

Exciting Technology! The prestigious Nature journal npj Digital Medicine just shared that [the paper]( I published with Eric Topol, MD continues to attract readers and was their top altmetric article for July 2023! We covered how large language models and their future versions could be regulated now in time and I'm so happy that our paper was this well received! Moreover, here is an analysis on [the top 18 technologies for the aging populations](. The future of elderly care could involve a network of internet-connected sensors monitoring health conditions, with machine learning algorithms analyzing the data to provide optimal healthcare. I hope you will find the newsletter useful! Best regards, Berci Bertalan Meskó, PhD The Medical Futurist [A WEARABLE ULTRASOUND SCANNER COULD DETECT BREAST CANCER EARLIER]( --------------------------------------------------------------- A typical digital health innovation that meets real-life patient needs. "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑎 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑎, 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑠. 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑏𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? This new device can be incorporated into a bra and allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer! [MED-PALM M IS A MULTIMODAL BIOMEDICAL AI FROM GOOGLE RESEARCH AND GOOGLE DEEPMIND]( --------------------------------------------------------------- The multi-modal large language model I've been talking about for months is finally here! DeepMind just announced Med-PaLM M, a Multimodal Generative #AI that understands: 1. Clinical language 2. Imaging 3. Genomics The model, that is currently being tested in radiology, has been found to accurately identify and describe tuberculosis in chest x-rays despite having never encountered presentations of the disease before in images! [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Watch out for amazing announcements about the multi-modality aspects of large language models which represent the future of how AI will be used in medicine. [INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of medicine and healthcare. It covers various AI applications, such as medical imaging analysis, diagnosis, drug discovery, patient monitoring, and personalized medicine. We recently added a bonus chapter on prompt engineering, so you can get up to speed in the generative AI era. [ENROLL HERE]( [THE TOP 10 HEALTH CHATBOTS]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Meet Molly, Ginger and Replika – some of your new chatbot friends aiming to make your life better. In the last years, smart algorithm-powered, text or voice-based interfaces have multiplied, and they are also taking their place in healthcare. The Medical Futurist believes they will ease the burden on doctors in primary care and help patients learn to take care of their health responsibly. Do you want to try one? Check out the following health chatbots! [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? It was time to create this list in the age of large language models. Which chatbot can compete with ChatGPT? Well, in specific areas, some can. [MULTIMODAL MEDICAL AI]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Multimodal medical #AI is on the rise! As the AI tools physicians will be able to use need to be multi-modal, meaning those will be able to manage multiple content types from text and image to sound and video, it's understandable that Google just released this announcement. In that, they outlined a spectrum of approaches to bringing multimodal capabilities to LLMs and share some exciting results on the tractability of building multimodal medical LLMs. [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? "𝑇𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝐼 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑤𝑒’𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐴𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐴𝐼. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ (𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠) 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑠-𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠." [AI OFFERS HUGE PROMISE ON BREAST CANCER SCREENING]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Using automation in healthcare is really inevitable. We need thousands of similar studies. Now researchers found that AI-aided detection of mammograms could spot breast cancer at a "similar rate" to two radiologists. "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒-𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝟣.𝟧% 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝐼 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? One study at a time, we come to the conclusion that AI can indeed take over repetitive, data-based tasks. [AMAZON CLINIC NOW OFFERS VIDEO DOCTOR VISITS IN ALL 50 STATES]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Amazon just expanded its virtual care service across the United States which lets patients connect with multiple #telehealth provider groups. Visits will cost an average of $75 and Amazon will not accept insurance for the visits. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? One step at a time, Amazon enters the healthcare market. 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