Pratik Shah: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease
Pratick Shah: Come l'Intelligenza Artificiale rende più semplice la diagnosi delle malattie
Dr. Pratik Shah creates novel intersections between engineering, medical imaging, machine learning and medicine. Full bio
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are performing incredible tasks
eseguono compiti incredibili
using human-like intelligence.
su vasta scala,
is often referred to as AI
ci si riferisce spesso come IA
on our lives in the future.
avrà un ruolo incredibile in futuro.
we still face massive challenges
a sfide estremamente impegnative
several life-threatening illnesses,
diverse malattie potenzialmente mortali,
due to liver and oral cancer.
o alla cavità orale.
per aiutare questi pazienti
and diagnoses of these diseases.
di queste malattie.
and can artificial intelligence help?
dell'intelligenza artificiale?
are suspected of these diseases,
l'eventualità di queste malattie,
medical imaging technologies
che sono molto costose,
CTs, MRIs, to be performed.
tomografia computerizzata,
those images and talks to the patient.
e ne parla con il paziente.
a very resource-intensive process,
questo è un processo molto costoso,
expensive medical imaging technologies,
sia tecnologie mediche costose
for the developing world.
nei paesi in via di sviluppo.
industrialized nations, as well.
nazioni industrializzate.
con l'aiuto dell'intelligenza artificiale?
using artificial intelligence?
artificial intelligence architectures
le architetture tradizionali di IA
of these very expensive medical images
costosissime immagini mediche
to an expert physician,
consultare uno specialista
those images for me.
or a deep learning network
o processo di apprendimento in profondità
intelligence approaches
and expert medical imaging technologies.
e tecnologie mediche ad immagini.
di intelligenza artificiale
intelligence architectures
che stiamo affrontando oggi?
problems facing us today?
what my group at MIT Media Lab does.
al MIT Media Lab.
of unorthodox AI architectures
architetture IA non ortodosse
challenges facing us today
più preoccupanti
e nel processo clinico.
with you today, we had two goals.
avevamo due obiettivi.
the number of images
ridurre il numero di immagini
artificial intelligence algorithms.
dell'algoritmo IA.
eravamo più ambiziosi,
of expensive medical imaging technologies
delle tecnologie mediche più costose
with tens and thousands
di costosissime immagini,
like traditional AI,
figured out a very clever way
ho elaborato un modo molto ingegnoso
of information packets.
di blocchi di informazione.
included colors, pixels, geometry
includevano colori, pixel, relazione
on the medical image.
sulla lastra.
into billions of training data points,
in miliardi di punti di apprendimento,
dei dati necessari per l'apprendimento.
needed for training.
imaging technologies to screen patients,
per l'esame clinico dei pazienti,
a luce bianca standard,
white light photograph,
or a mobile phone, for the patient.
o la fotocamera del cellulare.
billions of information packets?
di blocchi di informazioni?
the medical image onto this image,
dalla lastra su questa immagine,
that we call a composite image.
we only required 50 --
ne sono occorse solo 50,
our algorithms to high efficiencies.
i nostri algoritmi ad alta efficienza.
very expensive medical images,
lastre molto costose,
in an unorthodox way,
in modo non ortodosso,
but standard photographs,
standard ma ad alta definizione,
and mobile phones,
o cellulari,
in the future and even right now,
nel futuro ma anche adesso,
photographs from the patient,
fatte dal paziente,
medical imaging technologies.
tecnologie mediche ad immagine.
to enter an era
impact on our future.
nel nostro futuro.
about traditional AI,
intelligence architectures,
problems facing us today,
dei più gravi problemi di oggi,
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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