7 Applications of Machine Learning in Pharma and Medicine -

Other major examples include Google's DeepMind Health, which last year announced multiple UK-based partnerships, including with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, in which they're developing technology to address macular degeneration in aging eyes. Image credit: Google DeepMind Health – An OCT scan of one of the DeepMind Health team's eyes In the area of brain-based diseases like depression, Oxford's P1vital Predicting Response to Depression Treatment (PReDicT) project is using predictive analytics to help diagnose and provide treatment, with the overall goal of producing a commercially-available emotional test battery for use in clinical settings. Key players in this domain include the MIT Clinical Machine Learning Group, whose precision medicine research is focused on the development of algorithms to better understand disease processes and design for effective treatment of diseases like Type 2 diabetes. Until that day comes, Google's DeepMind Health is working with University College London Hospital (UCLH) to develop machine learning algorithms capable of detecting differences in healthy and cancerous tissues to help improve radiation treatments.