Twin Registries Moving Forward and Meeting the Future: A Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul N. Baird ◽  
Pirro Hysi

AbstractTwin registries have developed as a valuable resource for the study of many aspects of disease and society over the years in many different countries. A number of these registries include large numbers of twins with data collected at varying information levels for twin cohorts over the past several decades. More recent expansion of twin datasets has allowed for the collection of genetic data, together with many other levels of ‘omic’ information along with multiple demographic, physiological, health outcomes and other measures typically used in epidemiologic research. Other twin data sources outside these registries reflect research interests in particular aspects of disease or specific phenotypic assessment. Twin registries have the potential to play a key role in many aspects of the artificial intelligence/machine learning-driven projects of the future and will continue to keep adapting to the changing research landscape.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Liu ◽  
Ahmed Elazab ◽  
Baiying Lei ◽  
Tianfu Wang

BACKGROUND Echocardiography has a pivotal role in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases since it is real-time, cost-effective, and non-invasive. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have led to more intelligent and automatic computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems in echocardiography over the past few years. Automatic CAD mainly includes classification, detection of anatomical structures, tissue segmentation, and disease diagnosis, which are mainly completed by machine learning techniques and the recent developed deep learning techniques. OBJECTIVE This review aims to provide a guide for researchers and clinicians on relevant aspects of AI, machine learning, and deep learning. In addition, we review the recent applications of these methods in echocardiography and identify how echocardiography could incorporate AI in the future. METHODS This paper first summarizes the overview of machine learning and deep learning. Second, it reviews current use of AI in echocardiography by searching literature in the main databases for the past 10 years and finally discusses potential limitations and challenges in the future. RESULTS AI has showed promising improvements in analysis and interpretation of echocardiography to a new stage in the fields of standard views detection, automated analysis of chamber size and function, and assessment of cardiovascular diseases. CONCLUSIONS Compared with machine learning, deep learning methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance across different applications in echocardiography. Although there are challenges such as the required large dataset, AI can provide satisfactory results by devising various strategies. We believe AI has the potential to improve accuracy of diagnosis, reduce time consumption, and decrease the load of cardiologists.


Author(s):  
Mahesh K. Joshi ◽  
J.R. Klein

The world of work has been impacted by technology. Work is different than it was in the past due to digital innovation. Labor market opportunities are becoming polarized between high-end and low-end skilled jobs. Migration and its effects on employment have become a sensitive political issue. From Buffalo to Beijing public debates are raging about the future of work. Developments like artificial intelligence and machine intelligence are contributing to productivity, efficiency, safety, and convenience but are also having an impact on jobs, skills, wages, and the nature of work. The “undiscovered country” of the workplace today is the combination of the changing landscape of work itself and the availability of ill-fitting tools, platforms, and knowledge to train for the requirements, skills, and structure of this new age.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Javed Iqbal ◽  
Zeeshan Javed ◽  
Haleema Sadia ◽  
Ijaz A. Qureshi ◽  
Asma Irshad ◽  
...  

AbstractArtificial intelligence (AI) is the use of mathematical algorithms to mimic human cognitive abilities and to address difficult healthcare challenges including complex biological abnormalities like cancer. The exponential growth of AI in the last decade is evidenced to be the potential platform for optimal decision-making by super-intelligence, where the human mind is limited to process huge data in a narrow time range. Cancer is a complex and multifaced disorder with thousands of genetic and epigenetic variations. AI-based algorithms hold great promise to pave the way to identify these genetic mutations and aberrant protein interactions at a very early stage. Modern biomedical research is also focused to bring AI technology to the clinics safely and ethically. AI-based assistance to pathologists and physicians could be the great leap forward towards prediction for disease risk, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments. Clinical applications of AI and Machine Learning (ML) in cancer diagnosis and treatment are the future of medical guidance towards faster mapping of a new treatment for every individual. By using AI base system approach, researchers can collaborate in real-time and share knowledge digitally to potentially heal millions. In this review, we focused to present game-changing technology of the future in clinics, by connecting biology with Artificial Intelligence and explain how AI-based assistance help oncologist for precise treatment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 242-245
Author(s):  
Jootaek Lee

The term, Artificial Intelligence (AI), has changed since it was first coined by John MacCarthy in 1956. AI, believed to have been created with Kurt Gödel's unprovable computational statements in 1931, is now called deep learning or machine learning. AI is defined as a computer machine with the ability to make predictions about the future and solve complex tasks, using algorithms. The AI algorithms are enhanced and become effective with big data capturing the present and the past while still necessarily reflecting human biases into models and equations. AI is also capable of making choices like humans, mirroring human reasoning. AI can help robots to efficiently repeat the same labor intensive procedures in factories and can analyze historic and present data efficiently through deep learning, natural language processing, and anomaly detection. Thus, AI covers a spectrum of augmented intelligence relating to prediction, autonomous intelligence relating to decision making, automated intelligence for labor robots, and assisted intelligence for data analysis.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 734-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance de Saint Laurent

There has been much hype, over the past few years, about the recent progress of artificial intelligence (AI), especially through machine learning. If one is to believe many of the headlines that have proliferated in the media, as well as in an increasing number of scientific publications, it would seem that AI is now capable of creating and learning in ways that are starting to resemble what humans can do. And so that we should start to hope – or fear – that the creation of fully cognisant machine might be something we will witness in our life time. However, much of these beliefs are based on deep misconceptions about what AI can do, and how. In this paper, I start with a brief introduction to the principles of AI, machine learning, and neural networks, primarily intended for psychologists and social scientists, who often have much to contribute to the debates surrounding AI but lack a clear understanding of what it can currently do and how it works. I then debunk four common myths associated with AI: 1) it can create, 2) it can learn, 3) it is neutral and objective, and 4) it can solve ethically and/or culturally sensitive problems. In a third and last section, I argue that these misconceptions represent four main dangers: 1) avoiding debate, 2) naturalising our biases, 3) deresponsibilising creators and users, and 4) missing out some of the potential uses of machine learning. I finally conclude on the potential benefits of using machine learning in research, and thus on the need to defend machine learning without romanticising what it can actually do.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naresh Babu Bynagari

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most promising and intriguing innovations of modernity. Its potential is virtually unlimited, from smart music selection in personal gadgets to intelligent analysis of big data and real-time fraud detection and aversion. At the core of the AI philosophy lies an assumption that once a computer system is provided with enough data, it can learn based on that input. The more data is provided, the more sophisticated its learning ability becomes. This feature has acquired the name "machine learning" (ML). The opportunities explored with ML are plentiful today, and one of them is an ability to set up an evolving security system learning from the past cyber-fraud experiences and developing more rigorous fraud detection mechanisms. Read on to learn more about ML, the types and magnitude of fraud evidenced in modern banking, e-commerce, and healthcare, and how ML has become an innovative, timely, and efficient fraud prevention technology.


To build up a particular profile about a person, the study of examining the comportment is known as Behavior analysis. Initially the Behavior analysis is used in psychology and for suggesting and developing different types the application content for user then it developed in information technology. To make the applications for user's personal needs it becoming a new trends with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). in many applications like innovation to do everything from anticipating buy practices to altering a home's indoor regulator to the inhabitant's optimal temperature for a specific time of day use machine learning and artificial intelligence technology. The technique that is use to advance the rule proficiency that rely upon the past experience is known as machine learning. By utilizing the insights hypothesis it makes the numerical model, and its real work is to infer from the models gave. To take the information clearly from the data the methodology utilizes computational techniques.


2018 ◽  
pp. 261-264
Author(s):  
Ingmar Weber

Changes in the global digital landscape over the past decade or so have transformed many aspects of society, including how people communicate, socialize, and organize. These transformations have also reconfigured how companies conduct their businesses and altered how states think about security and interact with their citizens. Glancing into the future, there is good reason to believe that nascent technologies such as augmented reality will continue to change how people connect, blurring the lines between our online and offline worlds. Recent breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence will also have a profound impact on many aspects of our lives, ranging from the mundane—chat bots as convenient, always available customer support—to the disruptive—replacing medical doctors with automated diagnosis tools....


Author(s):  
Melda Yucel ◽  
Gebrail Bekdaş ◽  
Sinan Melih Nigdeli

This chapter presents a summary review of development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Definitions of AI are given with basic features. The development process of AI and machine learning is presented. The developments of applications from the past to today are mentioned and use of AI in different categories is given. Prediction applications using artificial neural network are given for engineering applications. Usage of AI methods to predict optimum results is the current trend and it will be more important in the future.


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