Clinicians spend significant time reviewing medical images and transcribing findings. By integrating visual and textual data, foundation models have the potential to reduce workloads and boost efficiency, yet their practical clinical value remains uncertain….
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A free image library, showing how diseases appear on different skin tones, has been launched to help prevent misdiagnosis for people with darker skin.
Many medical conditions appear differently based on skin tone, but typically…
Four AI technologies that could help healthcare professionals spot spinal fractures in patients undergoing routine CT scans have been conditionally recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
NICE’s independent Diagnostics Advisory…
The applicability of vision-language models (VLMs) for acute care in emergency and intensive care units remains underexplored. Using a multimodal dataset of diagnostic questions involving medical images and clinical context, we benchmarked several small…
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In this May Digital Health Digest, we highlight the latest in healthcare tech: Google’s new MedGemma AI models, Fuze Health’s integrated home care platform, ChipIron’s funding for a compact MRI, and Cooper Health System’s…
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Google announced the launch of MedGemma, which the company says contains the most capable open models that help developers build healthcare-based AI applications to examine medical images, generate medical image reports, triage patients or…
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This perspective proposes adapting video-text generative AI to 3D medical imaging (CT/MRI) and medical videos (endoscopy/laparoscopy) by treating 3D images as videos. The approach leverages modern video models to analyze multiple sequences simultaneously and…
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Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has signed a five-year contract with medical imaging and cyber security company Sectra.
A deal was signed in January 2025 following a four-month procurement, with the aim of saving healthcare teams…
The European Health Data Space holds significant promise for transforming healthcare, research and innovation across Europe. The main objectives of the EHDS, which the European Commission launched in 2022, revolve around improving healthcare delivery,…
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Aidoc has received FDA clearance for a computer-aided rib fracture triage offering (CADt AI) powered by a foundation model.CADt AI is an image processing prescription software designed to aid in prioritization and triage of…
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