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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: 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.