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Challenges to Training Artificial Intelligence with Medical Imaging Data

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Example artificial intelligence disease detection from radiology images, NIH IRP, cropped

If you were going to train an artificial intelligence (AI) system to understand and accurately diagnose medical images, what kind of information do you think would be most effective: lots of general image data, or small amounts of specific data?

Using SMART Goals to Make Scientific Progress

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Alex's desk in the lab has a laptop, monitor and neatly organized papers (plus some dinosaur coffee mugs)

As a theoretician in the lab of Dr. Ralph Nossal (NICHD), I use mathematical modeling to study how cells get to places in the body. Most of my time is focused on completing clearly written goals born from project plans. A system of timers, project plans, and goals keeps me on track to do what I need to do so that I can get back to the fun part of my job that I would happily do for free.

Flashback to the Time of Analog Data Storage

Friday, July 3, 2015

Before flash drives, index cards provided portable information. Dr. Jack Davidson created a set about the NIH Clinical Center’s Nuclear Medicine Department (NMD). This month, we’ll be highlighting a few of the NIH Office of History's more recent accessions.

NIH Nuclear Medicine Department history cards