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Josef Taalbi May 22, 2023

Charlotte Högberg May 22, 2023

What are the breast radiologists' views about integrating AI into mammography screening?
Check out my new article in BMJ Health and Care Informatics, co-authored with Stefan Larsson and Kristina Lång : https://informatics.bmj.com/content/30/1/e100712

#AI #breastcancer #screening

Anticipating artificial intelligence in mammography screening: views of Swedish breast radiologists

Objectives Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly tested and integrated into breast cancer screening. Still, there are unresolved issues regarding its possible ethical, social and legal impacts. Furthermore, the perspectives of different actors are lacking. This study investigates the views of breast radiologists on AI-supported mammography screening, with a focus on attitudes, perceived benefits and risks, accountability of AI use, and potential impact on the profession. Methods We conducted an online survey of Swedish breast radiologists. As early adopter of breast cancer screening, and digital technologies, Sweden is a particularly interesting case to study. The survey had different themes, including: attitudes and responsibilities pertaining to AI, and AI’s impact on the profession. Responses were analysed using descriptive statistics and correlation analyses. Free texts and comments were analysed using an inductive approach. Results Overall, respondents (47/105, response rate 44.8%) were highly experienced in breast imaging and had a mixed knowledge of AI. A majority (n=38, 80.8%) were positive/somewhat positive towards integrating AI in mammography screening. Still, many considered there to be potential risks to a high/somewhat high degree (n=16, 34.1%) or were uncertain (n=16, 34.0%). Several important uncertainties were identified, such as defining liable actor(s) when AI is integrated into medical decision-making. Conclusions Swedish breast radiologists are largely positive towards integrating AI in mammography screening, but there are significant uncertainties that need to be addressed, especially regarding risks and responsibilities. The results stress the importance of understanding actor-specific and context-specific challenges to responsible implementation of AI in healthcare. No data are available. Data cannot be openly shared, due to respondent anonymity.

BMJ Health & Care Informatics

Josef Taalbi Apr 30, 2023

Roger Penrose explains the origins of his work on black holes and singularity theorems, among other things in this series in 3 parts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDNh5WYGbU

Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Quantum Theory, and General Relativity (Part 2) | Closer To Truth Chats

YouTube

Josef Taalbi Apr 23, 2023

Percentage of environmental innovations in Sweden from 1908 to 2021. Part of this is creative response to energy crises: WWI, WWII, and OPEC, part may be legislation, social and political pressure to transform. From the SWINNO database.

Josef Taalbi Mar 29, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Mar 29, 2023

If we calculate how many grains are in a teaspoon of sand (an average) & multiply that by the amount of sand estimated on every beach & desert in the world, we get (roughly) seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion grains of sand on Earth. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/09/17/161096233/which-is-greater-the-number-of-sand-grains-on-earth-or-stars-in-the-sky #space #science

Meanwhile, there are ~70 thousand million, million, million stars in the observable universe - a figure vastly surpassing all of those grains of sand. The universe is immense, breathtaking & beyond imagination ✨

Josef Taalbi Mar 27, 2023

I finally got time to read this study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x
Shows that the fraction of disruptive science has declined since the mid 20th century . One explanation is changes in the incentives for research, benifiting incremental science and digging deeper within safe areas of expertice rather than exploring new knowledge combinations. I wonder how these results go with research that show that big collaborations, also inter-disciplnary, tend to be more incremental.

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time - Nature

A decline in disruptive science and technology over time is reported, representing a substantive shift in science and technology, which is attributed in part to the reliance on a narrower set of existing knowledge.

Nature

Josef Taalbi Mar 23, 2023

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.Mar 23, 2023

Women own only 30% of electric cars. One reason is safety. Unlike gas stations, charging stations do not have employees on site and are more out of the way. It takes 5 min to fill up a car with gas, but 30 minutes to recharge an electric car. https://19thnews.org/2023/03/electric-vehicles-gender-gap/

Josef Taalbi Mar 16, 2023

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Matthias Schmelzer Mar 16, 2023

"When the Paris Agreement was signed, scientists said the world could conceivably cut emissions sufficiently to avoid breaching 1.5C. But since 2016 emissions have increased each year except 2020 as the world burns through its carbon budget."

With immense consequences.

Josef Taalbi Mar 16, 2023

Glyn Moody Mar 16, 2023

New theory re-ignites debate about identity of Leonardo da Vinci’s mother - https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/new-theory-re-ignites-debate-about-identity-of-leonardo-da-vincis-mother/ "Could Leonardo da Vinci's mother, Caterina, have been a slave kidnapped from the mountainous Caucasus region of Central Asia? " #circassia

New theory re-ignites debate about identity of Leonardo da Vinci’s mother

Was Caterina a slave kidnapped from the Caucasus region?

Ars Technica

Josef Taalbi Mar 16, 2023

SFU Science Mar 15, 2023

Join us Wednesday, March 22 on Zoom to celebrate the 2022 Nobel Prize recipients at #SFU's Nobel Prize lectures! Three SFU faculty members will explain some of the latest breakthroughs in #chemistry, #physics and #medicine. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sfu-nobel-lectures-2023-tickets-525231540677 #sfuscience #scienceoutreach #publiclecture

SFU Nobel Lectures 2023

Join SFU researchers to hear their perspectives on 2022 Nobel Prize awardees’ contributions in chemistry, physics and medicine/physiology.

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Josef Taalbi Mar 16, 2023

nicolasnova Mar 15, 2023

Technologies in Decline
Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation
Edited By Zahar Koretsky, Peter Stegmaier, Bruno Turnheim, Harro van Lente

"The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting with ‘undesirable’ technology."

https://www.routledge.com/Technologies-in-Decline-Socio-Technical-Approaches-to-Discontinuation-and/Koretsky-Stegmaier-Turnheim-Lente/p/book/9781032100982

Technologies in Decline: Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation

The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting with ‘undesirable’ technology. Surprisingly, these questions are fairly novel. Thus far, the dominant interest in historical, economic, sociological and political studies of technology has been to understand how novelty emerges, how innovation can open up new opportunities and how such processes may be supported. This

Routledge & CRC Press

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