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Artificial intelligence in healthcare is often a story of percentages. One 2017 study predicted AI could broadly improve patient outcomes [open, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7702] [DX] by 30 to 40 percent. Which makes a manifold improvement in results particularly noteworthy.
In this case, according to one Israeli machine learning startup, AI has the potential to boost the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF) by as much as 3x compared to traditional methods. In other words, at least according to these results, couples struggling to conceive that use the right AI system could be multiple times more likely to get pregnant.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines assisted reproductive technology (ART) as the process of removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, fertilizing it with sperm and then implanting it back in the body.
The overall success rate of traditional ART is less than 30%, according to a recent study [open, DOI: 10.5455/aim.2019.27.205-211] [DX] in the journal Acta Informatica Medica.
But, says Daniella Gilboa, CEO of Tel Aviv, Israel-based AiVF—which provides an automated framework for fertility and IVF treatment—help may be on the way. (However, she also cautions against simply multiplying 3x with the 30% traditional ART success rate quoted above. "Since pregnancy is very much dependent on age and other factors, simple multiplication is not the way to compare the two methods," Gilboa says.)
Journal Reference:
Abhimanyu S. Ahuja. The impact of artificial intelligence in medicine on the future role of the physician, PeerJ (DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7702)
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday January 01 2021, @08:43PM (5 children)
Enjoy your war-torn, polluted, concrete shithole. Yours for just $9,999.99 a month. Pay nothing for 12 months. 99,999% APR variable.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday January 01 2021, @11:40PM
Forgive me replying to my own post, but the fortune says:
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2021, @07:19AM (3 children)
Let's see how that looks:
"war-torn"
Obama fueled war all over the Middle East, particularly in Syria, and at one point was busy bombing 8 countries. Hillary was clearly itching to invade Syria. Trump didn't start any new wars, has been withdrawing troops over the objections of DC swamp warmongers, and negotiated 4 different peace treaties. Biden (or Harris) is going to ignite Syria again, probably invading it.
"polluted"
Option 1 is to pollute a modest amount in the USA. Option 2 is to pollute much worse but in China, connected to the USA by wind and ocean current, and then pollute even more with giant container ships burning bunker fuel. Trump picked option 1, so you don't like it? You want the jobs in China so that you can't see the factory smokestacks?
"concrete shithole"
That sounds like a city. Every concrete shithole votes left. Conservatives live in harmony with nature. My spacious suburban-like neighborhoods have featured peacocks, iguanas, opossums, tortoises, huge wading birds, muscovy ducks, and vultures.
"Yours for just $9,999.99 a month. Pay nothing for 12 months. 99,999% APR variable."
That also sounds like a city, with the irresponsible finances common to leftists. I paid off my place in a few years. It's 3500 square feet on a half acre. I should have gone bigger, since I now have 12 kids. It was only $310,000 despite being near the beach, since it isn't in a big city. If I were less well off, I could have gotten a 3-bedroom on a quarter acre for $50,000. Housing is fundamentally cheap in the USA unless you insist on living in a big city. Normal families can still live on a single income. You like the city because of the leftist toys and because it fits the DINK lifestyle, but you're in a bidding war with all the other irresponsible people. You're choosing, voluntarily, to live where most of your income is taken by landlords and taxes.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday January 02 2021, @03:02PM (2 children)
"war-torn"
Obama and Clinton are basically conservatives as far as I'm concerned. Find me some foreign policy discussions with Sanders or AOC and we'll talk.
"polluted"
I'd like Option 3. Reduced consumption. Proper Green New Deal. Rewilding. A sustainable economy with a UBI.
"concrete shithole"
Hahahahahahahahaha! Tell us another! You ever seen what they're like on a hunt? Any species that gets in the way of how they want to use the land ("managed" land is not wild and much of it is agricultural monoculture) is fair game for persecution and eradication. And they absolutely delight in doing so.
Yeah, "featured". That's just the toffs' toy animals to decorate their play space.
"Yours for just $9,999.99 a month. Pay nothing for 12 months. 99,999% APR variable."
Financial products developed and marketed to them by the right-wing corporatists, to exploit and plunder what little they can get.
I really dislike cities and prefer not to live there. I would've thought that would be obvious.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2021, @05:23AM (1 child)
These were running free, not pets: peacocks, iguanas, opossums, tortoises, huge wading birds, muscovy ducks, and vultures.
Those are creatures from at least 3 different continents, all thriving in suburbia. (am Florida Man) So far, I have only tasted one of those animals.
You don't get a sustainable economy with UBI and the Green New Deal. Other countries won't restrain themselves. Soon they produce all the goods, and the US has nothing to offer but unrenewable natural resources. The poor are kept appeased by bread and circuses, for a while, but the currency suffers. Shortages appear. Eventually the poor riot, and then they are shot to keep order. The rich get much richer because they are involved in the selling of unrenewable natural resources to foreign factories.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday January 03 2021, @07:02PM
That's why such a reinvention of the economy ideally needs to happen globally to work effectively. Of course it's extremely unlikely humans will manage to cooperate on that level and to the degree required, so we're probably doomed.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.