Nvidia says deep learning is about to revolutionize medicine

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. Most notably, a machine-learning technique called deep learning is being applied to processing medical images and sifting through large amounts of medical data. Nvidia is, for example, working with Bradley Erickson, a neuro-radiologist at the Mayo Clinic, to apply deep learning to brain images. There are, however, significant challenges in applying techniques like deep learning to medicine.