News & Events: AI Initiatives in Healthcare

New artificial intelligence-powered technology may soon help reduce delays in diagnosing a collapsed lung, or pneumothorax, which is a serious condition that can be treated with quick intervention. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that works with portable X-rays to rapidly screen for collapsed lung. The technology was developed by GE Healthcare and UC San Francisco researchers. Pneumothorax occurs when air leaks into the chest cavity, compressing the lungs and causing a partial or complete collapse. Tens of thousands of [...]

Dr. Rachael Callcut, Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center and Director of Data Science for the Center for Digital Health Innovation, partnered with her radiology colleagues and GE Healthcare to create an initial algorithm that can detect pneumothorax, a condition which strikes nearly 74,000 Americans each year[1] and can be deadly if not diagnosed quickly and accurately.[2] The challenge: a patient with this condition could wait between two to eight hours for his or her X-Ray to be read.[3] Today, Dr. Callcut and the UCSF team's [...]