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Are you a photography buff? Do you read online reviews and consult with salespersons to find the perfect digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR), for which you also want the perfect bag to tote your camera around with you? Of course, your sense of art and esthetics are essential for great photos using composition, light, color, keep reading

“Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in healthcare. AI-based chatbots can act as automated conversational agents, capable of promoting health and providing education at any time.” – Görtz, 2023 The old-fashioned general practitioner is a vanished breed. This doctor toted his or her black leather doctor bag to home visits, drew up a chair to keep reading

Advanced prostate cancer (PCa) threatens to shorten a man’s life. Advanced means PCa is no longer contained in the gland but is still within the prostate bed and groin lymph nodes. In such cases, prostatectomy is generally not done. The rationale is to avoid putting a patient through surgery with no hope of cure, yet keep reading

I’ve posted numerous blogs on the promising applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the medical world. Early research and development of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) show results that offer accuracy rivaling that of humans, and speed/efficiency no human can begin to approach. This all sounds glorious! However, as AI tools have become keep reading

Starting over a decade ago, I collaborated on research into MRI imaging features that lend themselves to Artificial Intelligence training sets for the detection/diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa). As an early AI contributor, I’m always happy to learn how other PCa physicians integrate AI into their practice. I was delighted when CancerNetwork (home of the keep reading

“Artificial intelligence systems can be trained to detect and grade cancer in prostate needle biopsy samples at a level comparable to experts.” So says a Urology Today report on the uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in diagnosing prostate cancer (PCa). An overview of progress in AI applications was presented by Dr. Peter Humphrey (Professor of keep reading

I am an enthusiastic supporter of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into prostate MRI and other clinical imaging modalities. However, where I see only gleaming promise, others see dark shadows. For instance, Liu, et al (2023) remark, “One of the primary worries by medical students is that AI will cause the roles of a radiologist to keep reading

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) has boomed with countless applications in virtually every field of technology and learning, medicine is also benefitting. A branch of AI called Deep Learning (DL) is modeled after the layers of neural networks involved in the brain’s learning processes. By layering algorithms, to process data, DL mimics how the brain thinks, keep reading

I had a grammar school buddy whose elderly Grandma Bess lived with his family. She was spry and alert, and always interested in the latest appliances, gadgets, etc. Her word for them was newfangled. “My, my,” she would wonder, “What won’t they think of next?” When it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Grandma Bess would keep reading

With an ever-increasing array of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in radiology, it’s a boom time for turning MRI into a powerhouse. In particular, both machine learning (ML) and deep learning (a particular type of ML) enable MRI of the prostate to branch out in new radiological directions. Out with the old, in with the new. keep reading