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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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Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures

Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein

JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719

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Risk Assessment for Parents Who Suspect Their Child Has Autism Spectrum Disorder: Machine Learning Approach

Ayelet Ben-Sasson, Diana L Robins, Elad Yom-Tov

Journal of Medical Internet Research | April 2018

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HEARING IS BELIEVING – Researchers’ innovation provides a richer web-browsing experience for people who are blind

April 23, 2018

Imagine for a moment that you are blind and are navigating the web using a screen reader to hear websites rather than see them. Imagine that the article you have navigated to includes images. To…

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Anxiety and Information Seeking: Evidence From Large-Scale Mouse Tracking

Brit Youngmann, Elad Yom-Tov

WWW | April 2018

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Characterizing Efficient Referrals in Social Networks

Reut Apel, Elad Yom-Tov, Moshe Tennenholtz

WWW | April 2018

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Time for Break: Understanding Information Workers’ Sedentary Behavior Through a Break Prompting System

Yuhan Luo, Bongshin Lee, Donghee Yvette Wohn, Amanda L. Rebar, David E. Conroy, Eun Kyoung Choe

2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018

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Enabling People with Visual Impairments to Navigate Virtual Reality with a Haptic and Auditory Cane Simulation

Yuhang Zhao, Cynthia Bennett, Hrvoje Benko, Ed Cutrell, Christian Holz, Meredith Ringel Morris, Mike Sinclair

2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018

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Voicesetting: Voice Authoring UIs for Improved Expressivity in Augmentative Communication

Alex Fiannaca, Ann Paradiso, Jon Campbell, Meredith Ringel Morris

2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018

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Identification of residue pairing in interacting β-strands from a predicted residue contact map.

Wenzhi Mao, Tong Wang, Wenxuan Zhang, Haipeng Gong

BMC Bioinformatics | April 2018, Vol 19(1): pp. 146-146

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Getting good VIBEs from your computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski

April 18, 2018

Episode 20, April 18, 2018 – In a world where humans are increasingly interacting with AI systems, Dr. Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research, believes emotions may be fundamental to our…

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