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Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine is a heavy hitter at NeurIPS 2020

6 November 2020 by Sean O'Neill

Four members of the 10-strong CCAIM faculty have clocked up a total of 18 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2020 – one of the most prestigious international conferences for AI and …

How pioneering Machine Learning can help to future-proof clinical trials in the era of COVID-19

23 September 2020 by Sean O'Neill

The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest global healthcare crisis of our generation, presenting enormous challenges to medical research, including clinical trials. Advances in Machine Learning are providing an opportunity to …

AI standards launched to help tackle problem of overhyped studies

10 September 2020 by Sean O'Neill

The first international standards for the design and reporting of clinical trials involving artificial intelligence have been announced in a move experts hope will tackle the issue of overhyped studies …

Synthetic data: breaking the data logjam in machine learning for healthcare

7 September 2020 by Sean O'Neill

“Machine learning has the potential to catalyze a complete transformation in healthcare, but researchers in our field are still hamstrung by a lack of access to high-quality data, which is …

AutoML: powering the new human-machine learning ecosystem

7 August 2020 by Sean O'Neill

The van der Schaar lab, led by CCAIM’s Director, Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, has published a major new thought piece on automated machine learning (AutoML). AutoML will be the …

Vacancy: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Team Leader

24 July 2020 by Sean O'Neill

CCAIM team member Dr Sarah Teichmann is Head of Cellular Genetics and a Senior Group Leader at the Sanger Wellcome Institute. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Artificial Intelligence/Machine …

Andres Floto features in the Science, Policy & Pandemics podcast

18 July 2020 by Sean O'Neill

This week, CCAIM Co-Director, Professor Andres Floto features in the Science, Policy and Pandemics podcast, a panel-based discussion programme produced by the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy …

Mihaela van der Schaar at ICML 2020

12 July 2020 by Sean O'Neill

The lab led by the Director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine, Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, has had 7 papers accepted for ICML 2020, which kicks off …

Mihaela van der Schaar to give tutorial at MLSS 2020

19 June 2020 by Sean O'Neill

CCAIM Director, Mihaela van der Schaar, will deliver a tutorial at the 2020 Machine Learning Summer School to be hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems from June 28 …

Five Questions for Mihaela van der Schaar

19 May 2020 by Sean O'Neill

Centre Director, Professor Mihaela van der Schaar discusses with the Centre for Data Innovation the challenges and opportunities for machine learning in medicine and her lab’s recent partnership with NHS …

Automated machine learning will empower some, and replace others

11 May 2020 by Sean O'Neill

CCAIM Director, Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, explores the potential impacts of automated machine learning on medicine and healthcare delivery, with a message of empowerment for clinicians. Read the full …

Why medicine is creating exciting new frontiers for machine learning

30 April 2020 by Sean O'Neill

At the end of April 2020, CCAIM Director, Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, gave a keynote (Zoom) presentation at ICLR 2020, a key deep learning conference that draws an impressively …

Sarah Teichmann elected Fellow of the Royal Society

29 April 2020 by Sean O'Neill

Sarah Teichmann, a Principal Investigator for CCAIM and Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, is recognised for her pioneering computational biology and genomics work, which led to …

From black boxes to white boxes

14 April 2020 by Sean O'Neill

CCAIM Director, Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, explains that using AI and machine learning in medicine isn’t just about developing accurate models and rolling them out because, on their own, …

Progress using covid-19 patient data to train machine learning models for healthcare

3 April 2020 by Sean O'Neill

CCAIM Director, Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, demonstrates that machine learning techniques can accurately predict how covid-19 will impact hospital resource needs, such as ventilators and ICU beds at the …

Responding to covid-19 with AI and machine learning

27 March 2020 by Sean O'Neill

CCAIM Director, Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, calls on governments and healthcare authorities to use proven AI and machine learning techniques and existing data to coordinate a response to the …

The Naked Scientists Podcast: Intensive care beds – UK close to capacity

23 March 2020 by Sean O'Neill

The covid-19 pandemic led to unprecedented strain on intensive care unit admission. CCAIM’s Dr Ari Ercole discusses his work on ultra-early forecasting of that strain on intensive care resources. Read …

Using AI to augment clinical decision-making in cystic fibrosis

1 August 2019 by Sean O'Neill

Working with the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, CCAIM Director Mihaela van der Schaar’s team developed machine learning methods that could dramatically improve the accuracy of clinical assessments of people with cystic …

Transforming medicine through AI-enabled healthcare

1 August 2019 by Sean O'Neill

World-leading expertise in healthcare-focused machine learning combined with the world’s largest, high-quality cancer data collection service could lead to a quantum leap in personalised medicine. (This article, featuring the work …