Clinical Microscopy using Artificial Intelligence
June 4, 2019 | Terry Sharrer
Self-driving cars are one thing, but how about “self-driving instruments,” such as microscopes, which through artificial intelligence can carry out their own experiments on tissue samples. One lab in San Francisco “. . . is now adapting its robotic system to integrate AI directly into microscopes, teaching them to recognize individual cells not by their physical location but by “facial” recognition. One day. . . researchers may be able to program the system to conduct experiments autonomously—delivering drugs to certain cells based on what it observes, for example—which “could accelerate discovery and lead to less bias.” MORE
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