Identifying rare diseases, lung cancer & more with Deep Learning
Transmission #11
📸 Identify Rare Diseases with a Selfie
A new deep learning-powered app called Face2Gene lets doctors snap an image of a patient and receive a suggested diagnosis from thousands of genetic disorders. Amazing!
🎓 Deep Learning Foundations
Udacity has launched an introduction to deep learning curriculum, with weekly classes, real-world projects, and human feedback. Enrollment closes in ~5 days, and it seems to be pretty popular. Note: I work for Udacity and vouch for its awesomeness.
🌆 Saving you bandwidth through machine learning
To speed up image loading on mobile devices with poor connectivity, Google is using machine learning to produce high-res versions of low-res images on the client side. Very cool use of on-device ML!
🌎 GTA V + Universe
This is ridiculously cool! GTA V in Universe gives AI agents access to a rich, 3D world. “DeepDrive is a platform for creating open self-driving car AI. DeepDrive uses modding frameworks and memory inspection techniques to repurpose GTA V as a self-driving car simulator; it also provides pre-trained self-driving agents and the datasets used to train them. The existing DeepDrive environment and agent are now built on top of Universe.”
🐍 Tutorial: Deep Learning in PyTorch
For those looking to learn more about using Torch (vs. TensorFlow etc.), this tutorial is a great start!
📝 Industry Comments to NHTSA’s Federal Automated Vehicles Policy
An interesting look at how the major companies in self-driving cars are thinking about the new NHTSA policies.
🚗 As Self-Driving Cars Approach, the Auto Industry Races to Rebuild
The world will look very different in 5 years!
📦 Coming full circle on last mile delivery: from FedEx to Starship Technologies
A fund-raising announcement from Starship Technologies, who are building a neat autonomous delivery robot.
🛰 SpaceNet
“SpaceNet is a corpus of commercial satellite imagery and labeled training data being made available at no cost to the public to foster innovation in the development of computer vision algorithms to automatically extract information from remote sensing data.”
🏆 Can you improve lung cancer detection?
$1m in prizes available, and an amazingly worthy cause. “Using a data set of thousands of high-resolution lung scans provided by the National Cancer Institute, participants will develop algorithms that accurately determine when lesions in the lungs are cancerous.”
☺️ New AI App Provides Personalized Skin Care Evaluation
“Using CUDA, TITAN X GPUs and cuDNN with the Torch framework, the company’s scientists trained their model on 50,000 selfies, gathered from P&G employees and others, and used that to develop software that could accurately estimate skin age.”
🤖 Neodriven is a rearview mirror replacement that can make your car semi-autonomous
You can now buy what is effectively a Comma One (built by a new startup called Neodriven) for $1495.
That’s it for this week, thanks for reading! If you have any thoughts or questions, I’d love to hear from you in Tweet-form. You can follow and message me at @olivercameron.
