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When MRI images come into focus: How Tyger scales image reconstruction signals

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The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited [Podcast]

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Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis

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In Silico Predictive Modeling of CRISPR/Cas9 guide efficiency

Nicolo Fusi, Ian Smith, John Doench, Jennifer Listgarten

MSR-TR-2015-54 | June 2015

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99DOTS: low-cost monitoring and improving medication adherence

May 26, 2015 | Andrew Cross, Bill Thies

99DOTS is a new model of delivering tuberculosis medications that utilizes basic mobile phones and augmented blister packaging to provide real-time adherence monitoring without the burden of direct observation. By far three pilots have been…

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Ebola data from the Internet: An opportunity for syndromic surveillance or a news event?

Elad Yom-Tov

May 2015

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Single-cell analysis of CD4+ T-cell differentiation reveals three major cell states and progressive acceleration of proliferation

Genome biology | May 2015

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Devices and Networking Summit – Tutorial 1, Wearable Health Monitoring

May 10, 2015 | Ali Alvi, Desney Tan

Presenters: Desney Tan, Microsoft Research; Ali Alvi, Microsoft and Shwetak Patel, University of Washington There is an emerging trend to instrument the world with sensors that provide insight and allow us to improve the health…

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Usability and acceptability of ASSESS MS: a system to support the assessment of motor dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis using depth-sensing computer vision

Cecily Morrison, Marcus DSouza, Kit Huckvale, Jonas Dorn, Jessica Burggraaff, Kamm C, Saskia Steinheimer, Peter Kontschieder, Antonio Criminisi, Bernard Uitdehaag, Dahlke F, Ludwig Kappos, Abigail Sellen

May 2015

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Exploring Time-Dependent Concerns about Pregnancy and Childbirth from Search Logs

Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15) | April 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15)

ISBN: 978-1-4503-3145-6

Best of CHI honorable mention

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Blood Pressure Beyond the Clinic: Rethinking a Health Metric for Everyone

Dan Morris, Desney Tan, Logan Kendall

CHI ’15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2015

ISBN: 978-1-4503-3145-6

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ConPADE: Genome Assembly Ploidy Estimation from Next-Generation Sequencing Data

Garbiel R. A. Margarido, David Heckerman

PLoS Comput Biol | April 2015

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Immune screening identifies novel T cell targets encoded by anti-sense reading frames of HIV-1

Christopher T. Berger, Anuska Llano, Jonathan M. Carlson, Zabrina L. Brumme, Mark A. Brockman, Samandhy Cedeno, P. Richard Harrigan, Daniel E. Kaufmann, David Heckerman, Andreas Meyerhans, Christian Brander

Journal of virology | April 2015, Vol 89: pp. 4015-4019

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