Mar 15–18, 2020

AI at the point of care revolutionizes diagnostics

Prashant Warier (Qure.ai)
2:30pm3:00pm Monday, March 16, 2020
Location: LL20B

Who is this presentation for?

Non-technical or Business audience

Level

Beginner

Description

Perhaps the most imposing global healthcare challenge today is delivering quality healthcare over the last mile to at-risk populations in developing countries, which remains elusive due to lack of technology, infrastructure, and trained healthcare professionals. Bringing the power of AI to POC can bridge that last mile by providing inexpensive, swift, and accurate diagnoses. AI technology for POC is reaching an inflection point, now able to parse complex medical language and link natural language processing (NLP)-labeled findings to specific abnormalities and pattern recognition in medical scans.

Prashant Warier shares gripping success stories of leveraging deep learning and revolutionizing diagnostics at POC, including a project where an automated chest X-ray interpretation process was deployed in the Philippines to screen for tuberculosis. You’ll discover critical factors that must be in place for this diagnostics revolution to become reality, like the ability to screen for multiple abnormalities simultaneously, and you’ll understand the regulatory and clinical workflow challenges that threaten its further development. Prashant explores into the future of medical imaging, detailing deep learning’s potential to revolutionize healthcare through advances like AI-powered handheld ultrasound machines and fully integrated mobile vans for lung health.

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Prashant Warier

Qure.ai

Prashant Warier is the CEO of Qure.ai, a healthcare business that uses deep learning to automatically interpret X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs, and chief data scientist of Fractal Analytics with 16 years of experience in architecting and developing data science solutions. Previously, he founded AI-powered personalized digital marketing firm Imagna Analytics, which was acquired by Fractal; worked with SAP and was instrumental in building its data science practice. He earned his PhD and MS in operations research from Georgia Institute of Technology and his BTech from IIT Delhi. He’s passionate about using artificial intelligence for global good, and through Qure.ai is working toward making healthcare accessible and affordable using the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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