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Hugo Aerts and Ray Mak on FaceAge

Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Hugo Aerts and Ray Mak from Mass General Brigham join Lucy Dunbar to discuss FaceAge, a deep learning tool that estimates biological age from simple face photographs, and its implications in aiding clinicians in predicting prognoses for people with cancer.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(25)00042-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_01-05-25_landig

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Mohamed Omar on pathology and generative AI

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Mohamed Omar joins The Lancet Digital Health to discuss pathology and generative AI from a Digital Health Perspective. We explore expert journeys, AI applications in diagnostics, GPT-4's role, integration challenges, ethical considerations, democratisation of knowledge, and future advancements in the field.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(24)00114-6/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_landig

Judith Bonnes on detecting cardiac arrest using wearable technology

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0100

Developing and validating an algorithm for automated circulatory arrest detection with wrist-derived photoplethysmography with Judith Bonnes from the Department of Cardiology of the Radboud University Medical Center - Netherlands.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(23)00249-2/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_landig

Andrew Soltan on federated learning systems

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Dr Andrew Soltan joins Dr Lucy Dunbar to discuss the development, testing and deployment of a federated learning system across four UK hospital groups.

Mamatha Bhat on deep learning for predicting liver graft fibrosis

Tue, 23 May 2023 11:00:00 +0200

Dr Mamatha Bhat joins Dr Lucy Dunbar to discuss the development of deep learning algorithms in predicting risk of significant fibrosis after liver transplantation.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(23)00068-7/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_general_landig

Xiao Liu on AI-based clinical research studies

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0100

Xiao Liu joins Diana Samuel to discuss how to improve the reporting of artificial intelligence-based clinical research studies and the representativeness of health datasets.

Ashleigh Myall on predicting hospital-onset COVID-19 infections

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Ashleigh Myall joins Diana Samuel to discuss a new machine-learning framework that integrates dynamic patient-contact networks with patient clinical variables and contextual hospital variables to predict hospital-onset COVID-19 infections.

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Prediction of hospital-onset COVID-19 infections using dynamic networks of patient contact

Reading race

Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Judy Gichoya, Leo Celi and Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari join Rupa Sarkar to discuss how algorithms can predict a patient's race from medical data.

Caroline Figueroa on the need for feminist intersectionality in digital health

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Dr Caroline Figueroa and Dr Rupa Sarkar talk about the social and economic fallout from COVID-19 which has further exacerbated gender inequities and the need for a feminist outlook in digital health.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(21)00118-7/fulltext

Mihaela van der Schaar and Vincent J Gnanapragasam on predicting mortality in prostate cancer

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:00:00 +0100

Mihaela van der Schaar and Vincent J Gnanapragasam join Diana Samuel to discuss a new machine learning-based prognostic model for prediction of 10-year mortality from non-metastatic prostate cancer.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30314-9/fulltext

Vence Bonham on diversity and impact in genomic research

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0100

Vence Bonham joins Diana Samuel to discuss the impact of genomics and precision medicine on health disparities, and the need for greater diversity in genomic research studies.

Deepti Gurdasani on health data, AI, and COVID-19

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0100

Deepti Gurdasani joins Rupa Sarkar to discuss bias and inequalities in health data and artificial intelligence and the impact of COVID-19.

Maimuna S Majumder on COVID-19 misinformation online

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0100

Maimuna S Majumder joins Diana Samuel to discuss how misinformation on COVID-19 can influence the public’s online search interests, and the potential impact this can have on their health.

Sara Gerke and Timo Minssen on AI in healthcare

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0200

Sara Gerke and Timo Minssen join Diana Samuel to discuss the European Commission’s white paper on artificial intelligence (published in February 2020), and the challenges of implementing the outlined approach in healthcare.