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Artificial intelligence helping detect early signs of breast cancer in some US hospitals

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Artificial intelligence helping detect early signs of breast cancer in some US hospitals

Some medical doctors consider synthetic intelligence is saving lives after a significant development in breast most cancers screenings. In some circumstances, AI is detecting early indicators of the illness years earlier than the tumor can be seen on a standard scan.

The Christine E. Lynn Girls’s Well being and Wellness Institute on the Boca Raton Regional Hospital discovered a 23% enhance in most cancers circumstances since implementing AI throughout breast most cancers screenings.

Dr. Kathy Schilling, the medical director on the institute, instructed Fox Information Digital the observe has 9 devoted breast radiologists who’re all fellowship skilled, so the rise in early detections was shocking.

“All we do is learn breast imaging research, and so I assumed, you recognize, we had been most likely fairly good at what we had been doing, however this research actually is available in reveals us that even the devoted and dedicated breast radiologists can do higher using synthetic intelligence,” Schilling stated.

CHAT GPT ANSWERED 25 BREAST CANCER SCREENING QUESTIONS , BUT ‘IT’S NOT READY FOR THE REAL WORLD’-HERE’S WHY:

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AI-powered screenings have been in a position to detect smaller breast most cancers cells on mammograms that will not present up on conventional scans. (iCad)

“ProFound AI,” created by iCad, is designed to flag downside areas on mammograms. This system studied thousands and thousands of breast most cancers scans and, over time, realized to circle lesions and estimate the most cancers threat.

“Should you notice that 90% of the circumstances are benign and don’t have any findings, you recognize, you simply turn out to be fatigued. You get mesmerized by scrolling via the photographs. The AI helps us to refocus and discover these little tiny cancers that we’re on the lookout for,” Schilling stated.

ProFound AI grew to become the primary expertise of its sort to be FDA cleared in December 2018. The Christine E. Lynn Girls’s Well being and Wellness Institute adopted the groundbreaking expertise throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the hospital now boasts one of many earliest research on AI’s affect on most cancers.

“What I believe we will be discovering is that we’re discovering cancers after they’re three to 6 millimeters in dimension, and discovering the invasive lobular cancers that are very troublesome for us to seek out, as a result of they do not type plenty within the breast,” Schilling stated.

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Schilling additionally said that over the previous two years, the institute has supplied much less extreme therapies to sufferers recognized with breast most cancers as a result of the cells are so small.

“We’re doing smaller lumpectomies, fewer mastectomies, much less chemotherapy, much less radiation remedy,” she continued. “I believe we’re getting into into an entire new period in breast care.”

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTH CARE: NEW PRODUCT ACTS AS ‘COPILOT FOR DOCTORS’:

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A senior lady battling most cancers sits in a excessive again chair as she talks together with her Oncologist throughout a Chemotherapy remedy. (iStock)

Schilling additionally believes AI’s early detection capabilities might have helped save Luz Torres’ life after a routine mammogram on April 1 revealed a small cancerous tumor. Torres stated she had no signs or inclination that one thing may very well be flawed.

“I’ve very dense breast tissue, so I at all times have a mammography and an ultrasound. The advice of that go to was the breast biopsy, so I had that finished inside every week’s time, after which I received a telephone name that the pathology was breast most cancers,” Torres stated in an emotional interview. “It was an early detection. I come yearly, I am on observe with my mammography, so it’s totally small tumor.”

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A scan showing a small cancerous tumor

ProFound AI is designed to flag downside areas on mammograms. (Fox Information)

Torres was recognized with stage 1 breast most cancers in early April and lately accomplished surgical procedure. Happily, she is anticipated to make a full restoration after early detection.

“It appears to be like good. As a result of it was referred to as early stage 1, I will not want chemotherapy so very joyful about that,” stated Torres, who described the institute as “superb.” 

“The will to enhance the expertise for the sufferers to seek out this breast most cancers in sufferers early when it is treatable, and the prognosis finally ends up being nice. I am lucky sufficient to be a kind of sufferers. It is a blessing,” she concluded.

A number of corporations have launched AI merchandise with the power to flag abnormalities throughout most cancers screenings. Medical doctors are additionally utilizing AI to detect mind most cancers, lung most cancers and prostate most cancers.

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Replacing the OLED iPad Pro’s battery is easier than ever

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Replacing the OLED iPad Pro’s battery is easier than ever

Apple’s newest iPad Pro is remarkably rigid for how thin it is, and apparently also a step forward when it comes to repairability. iFixit shows during its teardown of the tablet that the iPad Pro’s 38.99Wh battery, which will inevitably wear down and need replacement, is actually easy to get to. It’s a change iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari says during the video “could save hours in repair time” compared to past iPad Pro models.

Getting to it still requires removing the glued-in tandem OLED screen, which iFixit notes in the video and its accompanying blog isn’t two panels smashed together, but a single OLED board with more electroluminescence layers per OLED diode. With the screen out of the way, iFixit was essentially able to pull the battery almost immediately (after removing the camera assembly and dealing with an aluminum lip beneath that, which made some of the tabs hard to get to). For previous models, he notes, you have to pull out “every major component.”

The battery is surprisingly accessible in the 13-inch OLED iPad Pro.
Screenshot: iFixit

After that, though, the thinness proves to be an issue for iFixit, as many of the parts are glued in, including the tablet’s logic board. In the blog, the site goes into more detail here, mentioning that the glue means removing the speakers destroys them, and the tablet’s daughter board is very easy to accidentally bend.

The site also found that the 256GB model uses only one NAND storage chip, meaning it’s technically slower than dual-chip storage. As some Verge readers may recall, that’s also the case for M2 MacBook Air’s entry-level storage tier. But as we noted then (and as iFixit says in its blog), that’s not something people who aren’t pushing the device will notice, and those who are may want more storage, regardless.

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This used to be an Apple Pencil Pro.
Screenshot: iFixit

But you can’t say the same for Apple’s new $129 Apple Pencil Pro, which shouldn’t shock anyone. Mokhtari was forced to cut into the pencil using an ultrasonic cutter, a moment he presented as “the world’s worst ASMR video.” (That happens just after the five-minute mark, in case you want to mute the video right there to avoid the ear-piercing squeal of the tool.) Unlike the iPad Pro itself, the Pencil Pro’s battery was the last thing he could get to.

By the time Mokhtari is done, the pencil is utterly destroyed, of course. He says the site will have a full chip ID soon that will include images of the MEMS sensor that drives the pencil’s barrel roll feature that lets you twist the pencil to adjust the rotation of on-screen art tools.

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Blue Origin’s first crewed launch since 2022: Where to watch

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Blue Origin’s first crewed launch since 2022: Where to watch

It’s been over a year and a half since Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket failed mid-flight, and more than two since its last crewed flight. Now, the company is go to launch six human beings into space. The company’s launch window begins at 6:30AM PT / 9:30AM ET, but will start streaming 40 minutes ahead of time on its website.

Blue Origin also normally streams its launches live on its YouTube channel, so it’s a pretty safe bet it will do so for its NS-25 mission tomorrow. Assuming the launch goes as planned, it will carry six passengers aboard, including the 90-year-old Ed Dwight, who was America’s first Black astronaut candidate but has never been to space. The other passengers are Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, and Gopi Thotakura.

The Federal Aviation Administration closed its investigation of the mishap in September last year, requiring Blue Origin to carry out 21 corrective actions that included redesigning the engine and nozzle components to prevent future failures. In December, Blue Origin launched 33 science payloads from NASA and other institutions into space. The capsule and booster were successfully recovered afterwards.

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Fox News AI Newsletter: How artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare

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Fox News AI Newsletter: How artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare

Welcome to Fox News’ Artificial Intelligence newsletter with the latest AI technology advancements.

IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:

– How artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare
– Sebastian Maniscalco admits AI makes a guy who writes like ‘Rocky Balboa’ sound like he ‘went to Yale’
– Researchers create AI-powered sarcasm detector

NEXT-GEN BATTLE: Modern warfare is changing rapidly, and harnessing artificial intelligence is key to staying ahead of America’s adversaries.

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Modern warfare is rapidly changing — and artificial intelligence may only speed up that process. (istock)

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING: Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco isn’t sure what to make of artificial intelligence in the industry. 

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FUNNY BOT: A team of university researchers in the Netherlands says they’ve developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that can recognize sarcasm, according to a new report.

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AI (artificial intelligence) letters are placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken on June 23, 2023.  (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration)

‘OUTCOMPETE CHINA’: A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Wednesday joined in a call to boost American funding of artificial intelligence research.

‘MACHINE LEARNING’: The widespread use of artificial intelligence tools has many workers concerned that the rapidly-evolving technology will eventually result in them losing their job, and one expert says that is a real concern — but not in the way some might expect.

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A recruit of the 1st Separate Mechanized Battalion ‘Da Vinci Wolves’ named after Dmytro Kotsiubailo trains and learns to work with FPV strike drones while undergoing five-day training at a military outdoor firing range on March 12, 2024, in central Ukraine. After training, recruits can join the Armed Forces of Ukraine to defend Ukraine in the war started in 2014 and escalated during the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.  (Valentyna Polishchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

AI AT WAR: The world may end up breaking into tech alliances as a guiding political issue in the years to come, according to a retired American serviceman-turned-novelist as detailed in his new book. 

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