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Pratik Shah: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease

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Today's AI algorithms require tens of thousands of expensive medical images to detect a patient's disease. What if we could drastically reduce the amount of data needed to train an AI, making diagnoses low-cost and more effective? TED Fellow Pratik Shah is working on a clever system to do just that. Using an unorthodox AI approach, Shah has developed a technology that requires as few as 50 images to develop a working algorithm — and can even use photos taken on doctors' cell phones to provide a diagnosis. Learn more about how this new way to analyze medical information could lead to earlier detection of life-threatening illnesses and bring AI-assisted diagnosis to more health care settings worldwide.

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Tedtalks;TED;Talks;medicine;TED Fellows;AI;technology;medical imaging;future;cancer;health care;innovation;illness;machine learning;science;medical research;health;TED2017;2017

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