A new educational program for scientists working on substance use disorder

MIT Open Learning team awarded NIH grant to provide training in biomedical product development, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

MIT Open Learning • mit
Feb. 8, 2023 ~7 min

MIT researchers develop an AI model that can detect future lung cancer risk

Deep-learning model takes a personalized approach to assessing each patient’s risk of lung cancer based on CT scans.

Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health • mit
Jan. 20, 2023 ~8 min


Meet the 2022-23 Accenture Fellows

This year's fellows will work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research,  AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations.

School of Engineering • mit
Dec. 9, 2022 ~5 min

Large language models help decipher clinical notes

Researchers used a powerful deep-learning model to extract important data from electronic health records that could assist with personalized medicine.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Dec. 1, 2022 ~9 min

Artificial intelligence framework reveals nuance in performance of multimodal AI for health care

Despite the lack of concrete evidence in the field, MIT researchers placed a bet that their framework would work.

Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health • mit
Nov. 18, 2022 ~6 min

Keeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19

A new study links very dry and very humid indoor environments with worse Covid-19 outcomes.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 17, 2022 ~8 min

Wiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence

Inspired by jellyfish and octopuses, PhD candidate Juncal Arbelaiz investigates the theoretical underpinnings that will enable systems to more efficiently adapt to their environments.

Sandi Miller | Department of Mathematics • mit
Oct. 2, 2022 ~8 min

Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers

A new model that maps developmental pathways to tumor cells may unlock the identity of cancers of unknown primary.

Bendta Schroeder | Koch Institute • mit
Sept. 1, 2022 ~8 min


3 Questions: Amar Gupta on an integrated approach to enhanced health-care delivery

The MIT researcher and former professor discusses how Covid-19 and the influx of virtual technologies created a new medical ecosystem that needs more synchronized oversight.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Aug. 10, 2022 ~12 min

Why it’s a problem that pulse oximeters don’t work as well on patients of color

New research ties inaccuracies in pulse oximeter readings to racial disparities in treatment and outcomes.

Megan Lewis | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science • mit
Aug. 2, 2022 ~7 min

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