One short week ago, I called on governments to use existing data and proven machine learning and AI techniques to help healthcare systems combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The response was amazing. My team and I received encouragement, ideas, and proposals for collaboration. We also received, courtesy of Public Health England, a set of (depersonalized) data […]
As the second-leading cause of death in the United States, cancer is a public health crisis that afflicts nearly one in two people during their lifetime. Cancer is also an oppressively complex disease. Hundreds of cancer types affecting more than 70 organs have been recorded in the nation’s cancer registries—databases of information about individual cancer […]
