Looks like Facebook has entered the medical space. Technology companies are exploring new avenues for their expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) can be put to better use. The world’s largest social networking company, Facebook Inc. (FB), has announced working on a research project related to medical imaging. The initiative is being jointly launched with a team of doctors in the radiology department of New York University's School of Medicine.
Facebook engineers belonging to the Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) group plan to use neural networks for the innovative project called as fastMRI. Neural networks is a series of algorithms that seek to identify relationships in a data set via a process that mirrors the working of a human brain. The researchers will utilize around 3 million MRI images of the brain, liver and knees sourced from 10,000 different medical cases as available with the NYU School of Medicine. To ensure data security and necessary anonymity, all details of the involved patients are removed from the medical images.

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