Medical, health, and genomics
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Panel: Future of technology in combatting disease and disparities in treatment: A cardiovascular case study
00:00 Introduction Speakers: Vikram Dendi, Chief Product Officer, Microsoft Health Futures Jim Weinstein, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research & Incubations 07:04 Panel Discussion Moderator: Miah Wander, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Health Futures Speakers: Ann Aerts, Head…
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Research talk: Next generation spatial genomics
The precise spatial localization of molecular signals within tissues richly informs the mechanisms of tissue formation and function. In this talk, we’ll introduce Slide-seq, a technology that enables transcriptome-wide measurements with near-single cell spatial resolution.…
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Research talk: AI in medical imaging: What’s next?
The field of medical imaging has experienced rapid innovation from the application of artificial intelligence (AI), but there continue to be significant challenges in realizing IA’s transformative possibilities. In this talk, we provide a brief…
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Research talk: Causality for medical image analysis
Machine learning has huge potential to augment medical image analysis workflows and improve patient care. However, two of its notorious real-world challenges are the difficulty in acquiring sufficient, high-quality annotated data and mismatches between the…
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Fireside chat: Emergent innovation
Have you wondered how to push the limits of your imagination in your research to drive significant and impactful change? In this talk, we are honored to be speaking with Noubar Afeyan, CEO and founder…
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Research talk: Domain-specific pretraining for vertical search
Information overload is a prevalent challenge in many high-value domains. Search in biomedicine, and many other vertical domains, is challenging due to the scarcity of direct supervision from click logs. Self-supervised learning has emerged as…
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Tutorial: Accelerating research with the InnerEye medical imaging toolbox and Azure machine learning
The InnerEye open-source toolbox powers the award-winning medical image project InnerEye and is based on the work of the Health Intelligence team at Microsoft Research Cambridge. In this session, we will provide a high-level introduction…
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Research talk: Learning to read the adaptive immune systems of humans
Humans’ adaptive immune system has evolved over hundreds of millions of years to recognize and destroy invading pathogens and retain an immunological memory to protect against future invasions. T cells are a key component of…
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Closing remarks: Health & Life Sciences – Discovery
Microsoft is exploring and making technological advances in collaboration with our research partners and the life sciences ecosystem around the globe in healthcare, biology, biotechnology, and precision medicine. In this track, you’ll learn about these…
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Research talk: CitizenEndo: Patient-centered endometriosis research
Endometriosis is an enigmatic condition, estimated to affect 10 percent of women of reproductive age. There is a dearth of data about the disease, and the current biomedical characterization does not align with patients’ symptoms. In…
