Recorded March 6, 2023. This transcript has been edited for clarity.
Robert A. Harrington, MD: Hi. This is Bob Harrington on theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology, and I'm here at the American College of Cardiology meetings in New Orleans, having a great time, by the way. It's really fun to be back live, in person, getting to see friends and colleagues, seeing live presentations, etc. If you've not been to a live meeting yet over the course of the past couple of years, please do start coming again, whether it's American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, or European Society of Cardiology. It's fantastic.
Putting that aside, I've been learning many things at this meeting, particularly around machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and some of the advanced computational tools that people in the data-science space are using.
I'm fortunate to have an expert and, really, a rising thought leader in this field, Dr Jenine John. Jenine is a machine-learning research fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, working in Calum MacRae's research group.
What she talked about on stage this morningis what do you have to know about this whole field. I thought we'd go through some of the basic concepts of data science, what machine learning is, what AI is, and what neural networks are.
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COMMENTARY
AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare for the Clueless
Robert A. Harrington, MD; Jenine John, MD
DisclosuresApril 10, 2023
Recorded March 6, 2023. This transcript has been edited for clarity.
Robert A. Harrington, MD: Hi. This is Bob Harrington on theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology, and I'm here at the American College of Cardiology meetings in New Orleans, having a great time, by the way. It's really fun to be back live, in person, getting to see friends and colleagues, seeing live presentations, etc. If you've not been to a live meeting yet over the course of the past couple of years, please do start coming again, whether it's American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, or European Society of Cardiology. It's fantastic.
Putting that aside, I've been learning many things at this meeting, particularly around machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and some of the advanced computational tools that people in the data-science space are using.
I'm fortunate to have an expert and, really, a rising thought leader in this field, Dr Jenine John. Jenine is a machine-learning research fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, working in Calum MacRae's research group.
What she talked about on stage this morningis what do you have to know about this whole field. I thought we'd go through some of the basic concepts of data science, what machine learning is, what AI is, and what neural networks are.
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Robert A. Harrington, MD
Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Policy (by courtesy), Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Department of Cardiology, Stanford Healthcare, Stanford, California
Disclosure: Robert A. Harrington, MD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
Research relationships with: Baim Institute (DSMB); CSL (RCT Executive Committee); Janssen (RCT Char); NHLBI (RCT Executive Committee, DSMB Chair); PCORI (RCT Co-Chair); DCRI
Consulting relationships with: Atropos Health; Bitterroot Bio; Bristol-Myers Squibb; BridgeBio; Element Science; Edwards Lifesciences; Foresite Labs; Medscape/WebMD Board of Directors for: American Heart Association; College of the Holy Cross; Cytokinetics
Jenine John, MD
Postdoctoral fellow in Data Science, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Disclosure: Jenine John, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.