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NIH Leader Highlights AI's Role in Medicine and Rural Care at UMaine Lecture

NIH's Michael F. Chiang spoke at the University of Maine about how advances in artificial intelligence and data science are reshaping medicine, improving diagnosis, expanding access to care, and driving new research.

Advances in artificial intelligence and data science are reshaping medicine, with the potential to improve diagnosis, expand access to care and drive new research, a national health leader said during a recent lecture at the University of Maine.

Michael F. Chiang spoke as part of the Maine College of Engineering and Computing Distinguished Lecture Series, co-hosted by the Office of the Vice President for Research. Chiang said emerging technologies are making medical care more data-driven, consistent, and accessible.

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