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In the news | Microsoft News Centre UK
How AI is helping to shrink waiting times for NHS cancer patients
The National Health Service at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is now able to plan radiotherapy treatments faster than in the past, thanks to AI advances that are cutting wait times. As the NHS approaches its 75th birthday, it continues to…
In the news | BBC Newsnight
AI cuts treatment time for cancer radiotherapy
A new type of artificial-intelligence technology that cuts the time cancer patients must wait before starting radiotherapy is to be offered at cost price to all NHS trusts in England. It helps doctors calculate where to direct the therapeutic radiation…
Accounting for past imaging studies: Enhancing radiology AI and reporting
| Ozan Oktay, Javier Alvarez-Valle, and Matthew Lungren
The use of self-supervision from image-text pairs has been a key enabler in the development of scalable and flexible vision-language AI models in not only general domains but also in biomedical domains such as radiology. The goal in the radiology…
AI and the Future of Health
| Desney Tan
Read about some of our research team’s work to make healthcare more data-driven, predictive, and precise – ultimately, empowering every person on the planet to live a healthier future.
AI Frontiers: AI for health and the future of research with Peter Lee
| Peter Lee and Ashley Llorens
The second episode of AI Frontiers features Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research. Lee was among a group within Microsoft to have early access to GPT-4 for evaluation and experimentation. Here, he applies his philosophy of tackling research from what…
In the news | New England Journal of Medicine
Benefits, Limits, and Risks of GPT-4 as an AI Chatbot for Medicine
Chatbots are computer programs with which one can have a conversation. In this article, the authors describe how the GPT-4 chatbot, which has been given a general education, could affect the practice of medicine.
In the news | Flagship Pioneering
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare and Biotech
AI has a massive role to play in the big leaps ahead for biotech and human health from enabling us to explore biology in ways never before possible to speeding up the pace at which we discover and deliver new…
Biomedical Research Platform Terra Now Available on Microsoft Azure
| Ilyana Rosenberg, Jer-Ming Chia, and Chaitanya Bangur
We stand at the threshold of a new era of precision medicine, where health and life sciences data hold the potential to dramatically propel and expand our understanding and treatment of human disease. One of the tools that we believe…
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Is Aggressively Investing In Healthcare AI
Earlier this month, healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) company Paige announced a new partnership with renowned technology giant, Microsoft. Paige describes itself as a company at the forefront of technology and healthcare, especially in the field of cancer diagnostics and pathology.…