Episode 5 - AI & Facebook to screen for depression

Episode 5 - AI & Facebook to screen for depression

In this episode, we discuss how AI can be used to screen for depression on Facebook, as shown in this 2018 PNAS article " Facebook language predicts depression in medical records", by Eichstaedt et al. Links: The article: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/44/11203 American Psychiatric Association: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/depression/what-is-depression National Institute of Health Mental: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/major-depression.shtml

Special focus - AI black box vs physician

Geoffrey Hinton recently posted this provocative question on twitter: "Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate. Do you want the AI surgeon to be illegal?" We try to analyze the subtext to that question and provide our own personal answer.

Episode 4 - Racial biases and disparities in AI

In this episode we discuss the recent Science Paper - Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations. ------- Link: The article: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/447

Episode 3 - Deep Learning & hypoglycemia detection via EKG

Precision Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: A Pilot Study on Deep Learning for Hypoglycemic Events Detection based on ECG Links: The article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-56927-5 Blood sugar testing: Why, when and how: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/in-depth/blood-sugar/art-20046628 What is an EKG: https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/diagnosing-a-heart-attack/electrocardiogram-ecg-or-ekg

Episode 2 - Clinical-grade computational pathology

#Pathology is an essential step for cancer diagnosis. It is currently being revolutionized by #ArtificialIntelligence. We discuss the promises and challenges in digital pathology in our latest episode, available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. --------------------- Links to go further: The article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0508-1 What happens after a biopsy: https://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/diagnosing-cancer/reports-and-results/after-biopsy-making-diagnosis