RI Foundation awards grants to 26 medical research efforts, including AI-driven cancer detection • Rhode Island Current

RI Foundation awards grants to 26 medical research efforts, including AI-driven cancer detection • Rhode Island Current

Alina Jade Barnett, an assistant professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Rhode Island, specializes in machine learning, deep learning, and healthcare-centric AI. (Photo courtesy of Alina Jade Barnett)Some uses of AI are low-stakes, like asking ChatGPT to draw up a grocery list or summarize some emails. And then there are high-stakes uses of the increasingly robust and everyday technology based in machine learning — like…

Rhode Island Foundation Awards Seed Funding for 26 Medical Research Projects

by RINewsToday News Team The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded nearly $650,000 in seed funding to 26 medical research projects across Rhode Island, supporting studies that range from improving adherence to GLP-1 weight loss medications to reducing postpartum depression and developing artificial intelligence tools to diagnose breast cancer more accurately. The grants are designed primarily to help emerging researchers advance early-stage projec…

RI Foundation awards grants to 26 medical research efforts, including AI-driven cancer detection

Alina Jade Barnett, an assistant professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Rhode Island, specializes in machine learning, deep learning, and healthcare-centric AI. (Photo courtesy of Alina Jade Barnett)Some uses of AI are low-stakes, like asking ChatGPT to draw up a grocery list or summarize some emails. And then there are high-stakes uses of the increasingly robust and everyday technology based in machine learning — like…