Microsoft: Artificial Intelligence in Health and the Environment

The computers ‘remember’, never forget, and are also very good at reasoning probability (probabilistic reasoning) and excel in translating templates (patterns), in data, which the human mind can not distinguish and elaborate. Thus, the capabilities of computers require them to be highly capable of making decisions, while providing people with a sort of “computational intelligence” that protects them. Combining these features of a computer is going to have a significant impact on almost any domain.

Artificial intelligence solutions today have the potential to help society overcome some of the toughest challenges. From addressing poverty and improving education to achieving a more sustainable future and disease eradication, artificial intelligence is currently promising significant solutions, and Microsoft is committed to exploiting new technologies to deliver the desired results, always focusing on humans.

Health sector

An example that demonstrates how artificial intelligence systems are helping to meet today’s health challenges is “InnerEye”. An AI system for which Microsoft researchers based in the UK have teamed with oncologists to help make cancer therapy more effective. “InnerEye” uses artificial intelligence to analyze CT and / or MRI scanning, allowing oncologists to look into the patient’s body in three dimensions and study abnormalities such as tumors . In particular for radiologically exposed cancer patients, the aforementioned examinations help radiologists isolate the infected cell from healthy tissues, avoiding contact with the pure cell and organ environment as much as possible.

Nowadays, this process is done manually and continues to be prone to errors, and requires the radiologist to draw hundreds of strokes by hand – a process that can take hours. “InnerEye” was designed to perform the same work in a fraction of that time, providing physicians with complete and accurate control of the final cell separation.

To create the “InnerEye” system, researchers used hundreds of primary CT and MRI. The tests were fed into an artificial intelligence system that learned to recognize tumors and healthy cells with unprecedented precision. The oncologist then fine-tunes the contour design, while always maintaining control. In the future, “InnerEye” can serve both in measuring and monitoring changes in tumor over time, and in assessing the extent of a treatment that works.

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Sustainable environment

Over the next 25 years, according to scientific studies, the world’s population is expected to grow by almost 2.5 billion people, a fact that raises the question: How do you double the crop to cope with this need? Artificial intelligence solutions offer significant opportunities for increasing food production and improving agricultural production. The “FarmBeats” project uses advanced technology as well as the power of cloud and machine learning to make it possible to collect data at low cost. This initiative provides farmers with information that they can easily use to improve agricultural performance, reduce costs and the environmental impact of agriculture.

Buying a space router, each farmer directly connects his farm with hundreds of farms across the globe, while having the ability to power the router with more devices and deliver real-time results twenty-four hours a day.

Once the farmer receives the data, whether these relate to soil characteristics or soil moisture levels, he can analyze them and predict the next day, quickly and inexpensively. And while most farms do not have electricity or Internet, the FarmBeats” project develops unique solutions by supplying farmers with cheap sensors, drones and algorithms around machine learning and leading to a new way of farming based on information gathering.

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