Facebook is trying to use AI to make MRI scans ten times faster

Facebook wants to revolutionise MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans. The social networking giant announced on Monday a new research project that aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) to make MRI scans up to ten times faster, and has been granted access to a trove of around 3 million anonymised MRI images from 10,000 clinical cases. In an announcement blog post, Facebook said the data it has accessed has had patient names removed, as well as "all other protected health information," and the project is compliant with HIPAA privacy regulations. The project is a collaboration between Facebook's FAIR AI research lab and NYU School of Medicine's Department of Radiology. The efforts are a major foray by Facebook into into the medical space, as it attempts to apply its experimental AI research efforts to real-world problems.