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Digital pathology helps decode tumor microenvironments for precision immunotherapy. GigaPath is a novel vision transformer that can scale to gigapixel whole-slide images by adapting dilated attention for digital pathology. In joint work with Providence and UW, we’re sharing Prov-GigaPath, the first whole-slide pathology foundation model pretrained on large-scale real-world data, for advancing clinical research and discovery.

GigaPath: Whole-Slide Foundation Model for Digital Pathology

Research Forum Ep2 | Panel | Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI

Research Forum 2 | Panel Discussion: Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI

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Scaling early detection of esophageal cancer with AI

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Health Care Decisions in the Information Age

September 27, 2011

Benjamin Handel of UC Berkley focuses on how individuals interact with the medical care sector to make important decisions. This involves using the information available and the incentives they face. The incentives can be financial…

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Advancing the State of the Art: 20th Anniversary and Beyond

September 26, 2011

At Microsoft Research, we are celebrating over 20 years of turning ideas into products that continuously improve the way people interact with technology. We advance the state of the art in computer science through exploration…

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Mining Big Data to Solve Monumental Problems

September 23, 2011 | David Heckerman, Jennifer Chayes, Stephen Emmott, Tony Hey

With the explosion of data collection that is outpacing Moore’s Law, Microsoft Research is developing and applying algorithms to massive amounts of data to help understand the genetic causes of major diseases, aging, as well…

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Adjusting Childhood Pneumonia Vaccination Periods May Save Lives in Nepal

September 21, 2011 | Simon Mercer

Learn how technology that helps manage data from clinical trials is facilitating the implementation of a clinical trial investigating a method to reduce childhood mortality caused by pneumonia in Nepal.

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A Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansion in C9ORF72 Is the Cause of Chromosome 9p21-Linked ALS-FTD

Alan E. Renton, Elisa Majounie, Adrian Waite, Javier Simon-Sanchez, Sara Rollinson, J. Raphael Gibbs, Jennifer C Scymick, Hannu Laaksovirta, John. C. van Swieten, Liisa Myllykangas, Hannu Kalimo, Anders Paetau, Yevgeniya Abramzon, Anne M. Remes, Alice Kaganovich, Sonja W. Scholz, Jamie Duckworth, Jinhui Ding, Daniel W. Harmer, Dena G. Hernandez, Janel O. Johnson, Kin Mok, Mina Ryten, Danyah Trabzuni, Rita J. Guerreiro, Richard W. Orrell, James Neal, Alex Murray, Justin Pearson, Iris E. Jansen, David Sondervan, Harro Seelaar, Derek Blake, Kate Young, Nicola Halliwell, Janis Bennion Callister, Greg Toulson, Anna Richardson, Alex Gerhard, Julie Snowden, David Mann, David Neary, Michael A. Nalls, Terhi Peuralinna, Lilja Jansson, Veli-Matti Isovaiita, Anna-Lotta Kaivorinne, Maarit Holtta-Vuori, Elina Ikonen, Raimo Sulkava, MIchael Benatar, Joanne Wuu, Adriano Chio, Garbiella Restagno, Giuseppe Borghero, Mario Sabatelli, The ITALSGEN Consortium, David Heckerman, Ekaterina ROgaeva, Lorne Zinman, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, MIchael Sendtner, Carsten Drepper, Evan E. Eichler, Can Alkan, Ziedulla Abdullaev, Svetlana D. Pack, Amalia Dutra, Evengenia Pak, John Hardy, Andrew SIngleton, Nigel M. Williams, Peter Heutink, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Huw R. Morris, Pentti J. Tienari, Bryan J. Traynor

Neuron | September 2011, Vol 72(2): pp. 257-268

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