🚨 New Multimodal Generative Medical AI 🚨

Our team just announced MedVersa, a groundbreaking multimodal medical image interpretation model. 🩺🖥️

MedVersa is the first generalist medical AI capable of learning from both visual & linguistic supervision to tackle a wide range of…

Not much.
wsj.com/health/wellnes…

A bit of #AI versatility😉
'We introduce MedInterp, the largest multimodal dataset to date for medical image interpretation, consisting of over 13 million annotated instances spanning 11 tasks across 3 modalities'
arxiv.org/abs/2405.07988
Pranav Rajpurkar Julián Nicolás Acosta Hong-Yu Zhou

Blood mutations in >200,000 people UK Biobank tell us more about risk of multiple diseases and aging process nature.com/articles/s4158… Nature Genetics

To reduce systemic markers of chronic inflammation (such as IL-6) in people with obesity, a GLP-1 drug was not as good as exercise in a randomized trial vs placebo
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-t…

New Nature Medicine
The longest randomized trial assessment—4 years— of semaglutide (Wegovy) in participants without diabetes
nature.com/articles/s4159…
Sustained weight loss, no new side effects noted

Really excited to share our work on #AI in #Surgery , now out in Nature Medicine!

🔹exciting advances across all aspects of surgery, including novel use-cases

🔹 prediction, education / feedback, computer vision, enhanced monitoring, data driven surgery

So, Low T is associated with increased all-cause mortality and cardiovascular death Annals of Int Med
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
[which doesn't mean testosterone injections reduce the risk]

It was a real delight to speak with Eric Topol, who has been tracking complex issues with AI for years. 🔊

#AI in #Surgery : Our latest review outlines the ‘state of the art’ of AI in the preoperative, intraoperative & postoperative settings, and the potential for improving outcomes, education, & system efficiencies.
Eric Topol Greg O'Grady Prof Ewen Harrison
nature.com/articles/s4159…

What are the things we should be concerned about by generative #AI ?
Kate Crawford is on it.
The new Ground Truths podcast
(link in profile)

Our comprehensive review of #AI in surgery is just out Nature Medicine
nature.com/articles/s4159…
an inspiration and joy to work with super-talented Chris Varghese Greg O'Grady Prof Ewen Harrison on it
Free access rdcu.be/dHL7g

Stimulating sciency stuff

Since US sequencing is so sparse now, we don't know if the beginning of an upturn in Northeast #SARSCoV2 wastewater is related to KP.2.
That inadequate pathogen sequencing is thematic for not adequately tracking #H5N1

LLM #AI , a master of deception
A review Patterns journal w/ potential solutions
cell.com/patterns/fullt…
by Peter Park Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Dan Hendrycks Aidan O’Gara safe.ai

Avoiding autoimmunity is about recognizing our immune self. It turns out that's complicated.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
PNASNews Mate Manczinger