Facebook ‘s Artificial Intelligence (AI) unit is working to develop a technology that, if successful, can make MRI exams ten times faster.
Collaborating with New York University's medical school, Facebook will use machine learning to train an algorithm for identifying arrangement of bones, muscles, ligaments, and other parts of the human body, and then feed the information into MRI machines' software – a process that is expected to create MRI images in much less time compared to what it takes at present. NYU is providing an anonymous dataset of 10,000 MRI exams for this project, which includes as many as three million images of knees, brains, and livers.