Medical Attention

Ep.8 Algorithmic Bias

In this episode, we discuss algorithmic bias and fairness in healthcare. We explain what this is, the different definitions of “fairness”, explore the ways in which bias can enter the machine learning pipeline and some ways to combat it.
01:00 Technical update - NeurIPS
06:50 Technical update - ChatGPT-o3
14:00 - Algorithmic bias
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Ep.7 Informatics Year in Review

We’ve returned after an accidental hiatus, just in time for the end of the year. In this episode, we’re joined by the team behind the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Year in Review - Professor James Cimino, Pushkala Jayaraman and Dr Humayera Islam to talk about the main themes in healthcare AI for 2024.
01:00 Technical update (ChatGPT-o1, agentic AI)10:25 AMIA Year in Review
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Ep.6 Human-computer interaction in healthcare

We’re back! This is the start of our regular discussions about healthcare AI topics and recent literature. On today’s episode -  the 10 commandments of decision support, the checkered history of EMRs, clinicians as “moral crumple zone” for AI models and much more.
01:18 Technical update (Llama 3.1, Phi releases)
06:25 Main discussion
41:20 Article round-up
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Ep.5: Pushed to the LLM-it

In this episode, we discuss more of the technical aspects of LLM implementation in healthcare, including the following topics:
Embeddings
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
Fine tuning
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)
Small models
Quantisation
Encoder and decoder models
Multimodal transformers
Oh my!
 
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Ep.4: LLM LLMitations

In this episode, we discuss some concerns about LLM implementation in the healthcare setting, including the following topics:
More detail about hallucinations, issues with accuracy 
Difficulties of model evaluation
Concerns regarding bias and equity
Governance and monitoring of LLMs in a healthcare settings
 
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Ep.3: Introduction to LLMs

Finally! We’re talking about large language models (LLMs) including ChatGPT. We discuss the following topics:
Brief explanation of transformer models and how they work including the attention mechanism and context window
Discuss a brief development of LLMs to this point
How LLMs are trained
Some limitations - privacy, accuracy, provenance
 
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Ep.2: Neural networks in healthcare

In this episodes we give an overview of neural networks and how they’re used in healthcare. We'll be covering the following topics:
Definition of neural networks and a high level explanation of their structure
Overview of the development of neural networks and use in healthcare
How neural networks are currently used in medicine
Limitations and considerations for their use
 
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Ep.1: Introduction to AI in healthcare

Welcome to Medical Attention. This episode is an introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning for people in healthcare with no technical background.
 
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