Pratik Shah: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease
Pratik Shah: Cómo la inteligencia artificial está facilitando los diagnósticos tempranos de enfermedades
Dr. Pratik Shah creates novel intersections between engineering, medical imaging, machine learning and medicine. Full bio
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are performing incredible tasks
pueden realizar tareas asombrosas
using human-like intelligence.
y con inteligencia parecida a la humana.
is often referred to as AI
es a la que solemos llamar IA
on our lives in the future.
impacto en nuestras vidas en el futuro.
we still face massive challenges
nos enfrentamos a retos enormes
several life-threatening illnesses,
de varias enfermedades terminales,
contagiosas y el cáncer.
due to liver and oral cancer.
del cáncer hepático u oral.
and diagnoses of these diseases.
de esas enfermedades.
and can artificial intelligence help?
la inteligencia artificial puede ayudar?
are suspected of these diseases,
tiene alguna de estas enfermedades,
tecnologías de escaneo muy caras
medical imaging technologies
CTs, MRIs, to be performed.
fluorescencia, los TAC o las RM.
those images and talks to the patient.
el diagnóstico y habla con el paciente.
a very resource-intensive process,
que requiere de muchos recursos,
expensive medical imaging technologies,
de diagnóstico por escáner,
for the developing world.
para los países en desarrollo.
industrialized nations, as well.
muchos países desarrollados.
con la inteligencia artificial?
using artificial intelligence?
artificial intelligence architectures
de inteligencia artificial tradicionales
of these very expensive medical images
estos costosos aparatos médicos,
to an expert physician,
those images for me.
o una red de aprendizaje profundo
or a deep learning network
intelligence approaches
and expert medical imaging technologies.
y equipos profesionales de escaneo.
arquitecturas de inteligencia artificial
intelligence architectures
problems facing us today?
a los que hoy nos enfrentamos?
what my group at MIT Media Lab does.
mi grupo en el MIT Media Labs.
of unorthodox AI architectures
arquitecturas de IA no convencionales
challenges facing us today
más importantes que enfrentamos hoy
with you today, we had two goals.
teníamos dos objetivos.
the number of images
el número de imágenes
artificial intelligence algorithms.
los algoritmos de inteligencia artificial.
of expensive medical imaging technologies
estos costosos equipos de tecnología
with tens and thousands
de estas costosas imágenes,
like traditional AI,
figured out a very clever way
encontramos una manera ingeniosa
of information packets.
de paquetes de información.
included colors, pixels, geometry
colores, píxeles, geometría
en la imagen de diagnóstico.
on the medical image.
into billions of training data points,
miles de millones de puntos de datos,
de datos necesarios para el entrenamiento.
needed for training.
imaging technologies to screen patients,
escáneres para examinar pacientes
white light photograph,
estándar con luz natural
or a mobile phone, for the patient.
o con el teléfono del paciente.
de paquetes de información?
billions of information packets?
the medical image onto this image,
de la imagen de diagnóstico
that we call a composite image.
una imagen compuesta.
we only required 50 --
solo necesitamos 50,
a los algoritmos con gran eficiencia.
our algorithms to high efficiencies.
very expensive medical images,
costosas imágenes de diagnóstico,
de IA de un modo poco ortodoxo,
in an unorthodox way,
but standard photographs,
de alta definición pero estándares,
and mobile phones,
in the future and even right now,
en el futuro o incluso hoy,
photographs from the patient,
y estándares del paciente,
medical imaging technologies.
de diagnósticos por escáner.
to enter an era
para entrar en una nueva era
impact on our future.
about traditional AI,
ineficiente en su utilización,
intelligence architectures,
más importantes de hoy en día,
problems facing us today,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Pratik Shah - Medical technologistDr. Pratik Shah creates novel intersections between engineering, medical imaging, machine learning and medicine.
Why you should listen
Dr. Shah's research program at the MIT Media Lab develops scalable and low-cost diagnostics and therapeutics. His ongoing research areas at MIT include: 1) artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for detection of cancer biomarkers using standard photographs vs. expensive medical images; 2) unorthodox artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to design optimal and faster clinical trials and to reduce adverse effects on patients; and 3) low-cost and open source imaging devices, paper diagnostics, algorithms and mobile phones to improve public health and generate real-world data.
Clinical studies with Pratik's medical technologies have revealed "missing sick" patients, who otherwise remain undiagnosed in conventional healthcare settings. Dr. Shah's graduate and postdoctoral research contributed to the discovery of a vaccine component to prevent pneumococcal (Streptococcus pneumoniae) diseases; the identification of new pathways, technologies and metabolites as antimicrobials to target gastrointestinal infections; and a nonprofit to deploy a low-cost water quality test for the developing world.
Past recognition for Dr. Shah includes the American Society for Microbiology's Raymond W. Sarber national award, the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospitals ECOR Fund for Medical Discovery postdoctoral fellowship, the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador Award and a TED Fellowship. Pratik has been an invited discussion leader at Gordon Research Seminars; a speaker at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Gordon Research Conferences and IEEE bioengineering conferences; and a peer reviewer for leading scientific publications and funding agencies. Pratik has a BS, MS, and a PhD in Microbiology and completed fellowship training at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
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