Synthetic intelligence (AI) may help us do stuff like discovering a selected picture in our photographs app, or translating indicators into one other language. What if we utilized the identical expertise to essentially massive issues in areas like healthcare? Google’s Dr. Lily Peng describes her journey from drugs to expertise and descriptions the potential of AI in healthcare, describing how her crew skilled an AI algorithm to detect diabetic eye illness in medical photos to assist medical doctors in India forestall tens of millions of individuals from getting blind. Dr. Lily Peng is a health care provider by coaching and now works with a crew of medical doctors, scientists, and engineers at Google Well being who use AI for medical imaging, to extend the provision and accuracy of care. A few of her crew’s latest work contains constructing fashions to detect diabetic eye illness, predict cardiovascular well being elements, and establish breast and lung most cancers.
Earlier than Google, Dr. Peng was a product supervisor at Doximity, the “LinkedIn for physicians” and a co-founder of Nano Precision Medical, a drug supply system start-up. She holds a Bachelor of Science diploma with honors and distinction in Chemical Engineering from Stanford College, California, a doctorate in Bioengineering and a medical diploma from the College of California, San Francisco. This discuss was given at a TEDx occasion utilizing the TED convention format however independently organized by a local people. Study extra at