Nvidia says deep learning is about to revolutionize medicine

The chip maker Nvidia is riding the current artificial-intelligence boom with hardware designed to power cutting-edge learning algorithms. And the company sees health care and medicine as the next big market for its technology. Kimberly Powell, who leads Nvidia's efforts in health care, says the company is working with medical researchers in a range of areas and will look to expand these efforts in coming years. "There's this amazing surge in medical imaging research," Powell said at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference in San Francisco on Monday. Most notably, a machine-learning technique called deep learning is being applied to processing medical images and sifting through large amounts of medical data.