deep learning
Machine learning using many-layered neural networks to learn hierarchical representations from raw data. Drove major advances across vision, language, and science.
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MIT Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify Halicin, an Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria
On 20 February 2020, James Collins and colleagues at MIT published research in Cell describing a deep-learning model trained to predict antibiotic activity; the model identified halicin, a compound previously investigated for diabetes treatment, as a potent broad-spectrum antibiotic capable of killing several drug-resistant bacterial strains.
Google AI Model Matches or Exceeds Radiologist Performance in Lung Cancer Detection from CT Scans
In May 2019, researchers at Google Health and Northwestern Medicine published a deep-learning model in Nature Medicine that detected malignant lung nodules in low-dose CT scans, matching or exceeding the performance of six radiologists on a held-out dataset, with fewer false positives and false negatives when prior scans were unavailable.