Brainiacs: Applying Watson for Genomics to better understand brain tumors
This spring I was invited to a global meeting about cancer research – how tumor data should be gathered, integrated and interpreted. It brought together specialists from medicine, biology, chemistry,...
July 11, 2017
DREAM Challenge results: Can machine learning help improve accuracy in...
Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women. It is estimated that one out of eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their...
June 2, 2017
Spotting Diabetic Retinopathy by analyzing medical images pixel by pixel
IBM researchers developed a method using deep learning and visual analytics technology for the early detection of Diabetic Retinopathy, one of the leading causes of blindness. Deep learning algorithms combined...
April 20, 2017
Monitoring Parkinson’s disease with sensors and analytics to improve clinical...
IBM and Pfizer's Project BlueSky has made great strides over the last year with new technology to automatically assess the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
April 11, 2017
Featured patent: Machine learning models for drug discovery
IBM Researchers patented an invention that uses machine learning to help drug discovery researchers identify which drug indications are typically linked to which side effects.
April 7, 2017
Using AI and science to predict heart failure
Heart failure is very hard to detect early, but with the help of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, a team of scientists at IBM Research partnered with scientists...
April 5, 2017
Healthcare research: IBM uncovers new way to stimulate the body to...
The Soft Matter Science department in IBM Research’s Healthcare and Life Sciences recently discovered that polymer-coated nanomaterials trigger a dramatic reaction in the body’s cells -- one that we previously...
March 22, 2017
How Big Data is Making Scientists Smarter about Ebola
IBM Research releases open-source computational model to study Ebola spread from animals to humans.
March 2, 2017
Watson’s detective work could help stop the silent thief of...
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. The disease progresses very slowly and destroys vision gradually, starting with the side vision and narrowing over time. It often remains...
February 20, 2017
Publishing in Science: Predicting how molecules smell
Although the Roman philosopher Lucretius was right when he wrote that odors were caused by a flow of atoms emitted by objects, smell may still be the least understood of...
February 19, 2017
New IBM research: Making silicon biochips to stretch single DNA...
Just last month, IBM released its “5 in 5” predictions, an exercise to identify five innovations that will have an impact on society in five years. Among the five, it...
February 16, 2017