“A working group tasked with addressing best practices and guidelines for the National Institutes of Health to advance artificial intelligence in research efforts released recommendations last month to address areas like data generation and ethics around the technology.”
“Artificial intelligence provides many opportunities to assist in biomedicine, such as interpreting unstructured text and data in medical records and detecting cancerous tumors with increased speed and accuracy. Without proper guidance, it could produce less than optimal results or lag behind its development.”
“To maximize the potential of the emerging technology, NIH created the AI Working Group in December 2018, comprising government, industry and academic research experts. A year later, the group delivered eight recommendations at the Advisory Committee to the Director meeting at the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland.”
“The group’s recommendations to propel progress in AI for biomedical science and research…” Read the full article here.
Source: NIH Makes Progress in AI Efforts for Research – By Faith Ryan, January 9, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
