Jan 2017 - Report: Re-work deep learning workshop in healthcare
Will 'big data' and AI empower the patients and help doctors in their decision-making processes, or is it a stepping stone to the industrialization and monetization of medical care?
Report: Re-work deep learning workshop in healthcare, London 28/1 and 1/3 2017
Making sense of the overwhelming quantity of medical data generated everyday in clinics and research is still an ongoing effort, one that has seen an incredible acceleration in the last few years, also due to breakthroughs in the (apparently unrelated) fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and statistical learning, often also called machine learning. The "Deep Learning applications in Healthcare" workshop, wants to explore this intersection: how AI, data science and personalized medicine will shape the future of healthcare, what is the current state of the art and what are the issues yet to overcome?